With more than 1,400 men, an operation is launched against the new ringleaders of the GAO Clan del Golfo after the arrest of Otoniel.
During the government of President Iván Duque, more than 2,800 members of the GAO Clan del Golfo have been arrested.
At the Urabá region of Antioquia, the President of the Republic, Iván Duque, the Minister of Defense, Diego Molano, and the high military and Police command gave precise instructions to the new Search Bloc against the Organized Armed Group, GAO, Clan del Golfo del Golfo.
The new Search Bloc is made up of a little more than 700 men of the National Police and 720 of the National Army, who from Necoclí and Carepa will launch an unprecedented operation against these group after the arrest and extradition of their top ringleader alias Otoniel.
This new strategy to put an end to the GAO Clan del Golfo will in the same way be accompanied by 15 prosecutors to ensure that there is a rapid prosecution of those arrested and accelerate the expropriation processes.
“As a presidential candidate, I said that Otoniel would be an individual arrested and extradited, and he was. Now other extraditions will come, they will in the same way fall in the very short term alias Gonzalito, alias Siopas and alias Chiquito Malo.”
President Duque highlighted that all the operations that the GAO Clan del Golfo has tried to undertake in recent days are a desperate and cowardly attitude following the extradition of Otoniel.
“They have been interested in making demonstrations of anxiety to try to find some kind of negotiating taking advantage of the electoral contest.”
Before launching this new search bloc, the authorities held a security council in Carepa, Antioquia, where President Duque recalled that the GAO Clan del Golfo has suffered the hardest blows during his government.
“Otoniel felt untouchable, we arrested him and he wanted to use his criminal power to evade extradition. We already have 16 members of the GAO Clan del Golfo ready for extradition and we are going to extradite them,” said the head of State
Source: Defense Sector Communications Office - Ministry of National Defense
