Two members of the illegal organization and a public official were in the same way arrested during the operation.
The Pacific substructure of the GAO Clan del Golfo is accused of extortion, intimidation of communities and sustaining armed dispute with other criminal organizations, in the Department of Chocó.
These arrests contribute to the tranquility of the ecotourism sector and environmental leaders in the Department of Chocó, who were threatened by this armed substructure.
Alias Mexicano, ringleader of the Pacific substructure of the organized armed group, GAO, Clan del Golfo was arrested in an inter-agency operation conducted by the Colombian Navy, the National Army and the technical investigation Corps, CTI, of the prosecutor's Office, for being involved in the crimes of homicide, extortion kidnapping, extortion, drug trafficking and firearms trafficking, as the main source of financing their criminal activities.
The ringleader of the criminal structure focused on Bahía Solano was arrested in the municipality of Turbo, Antioquia. According to his criminal record, he was the urban ringleader of the municipality of Nuquí, where he monitored the units of the Colombian Navy, logistical coordination for the substructure, subversion of officials and criminal acts in Nuquí and Bahía Solano, Department of Chocó.
During the operation in the same way were arrested alias Costeño and Alias Florito, members of this illegal organization.
Alias Costeño, an individual arrested in El Totumo, in the municipality of Necoclí, Antioquia, was in charge of extortion to the tourist economic groups and merchants to bring them to bankruptcy. As part of this operation, a public official was in the same way arrested who, apparently, during his stay in the municipality of Nuquí, Department of Chocó, provided information to GAO Clan del Golfo del Golfo, about the movements of the Military Forces in the region.
According to information collected, the arrested men are linked to the structure that killed the former Indigenous Governor Miguel Tapí and caused the displacement of the indigenous reservation of Bacuru Purú in December last year, as well as the murder of ecotourism leaders in Nuquí such as Javier Montoya and Juana María Perea Plata.
The individuals were arrested for the crime of association to commit aggravated crimes in accordance with the order issued by the Attorney General's Office in Medellin, and they were put into custody of the authorities.
Source: press-Navy of Colombia
