These individuals are accused of perpetrating various criminal operations against civilians and the Security forces. They would in the same way be responsible for the forced displacement of the communities in the municipality Puerto López, in the municipality El Bagre, in the department of Antioquia, last year.
In military operations, troops of the National Army, in coordination with the Colombian Air Force, which had the support of the National Police and the Attorney General's Office, and in response to the recommendations of early warning No. 003 In 2019, two individuals, alias Jhonatan, alleged finance ringleader, and alias Odín, third ringleader of the José Antonio Galán front, of the ELN Organized Armed Group, were captured.
This military operation was carried out in the village Pueblo Negro, in the municipality of Zaragoza, Antioquia. There the military, guided by information provided by the Civic Participation Network, apprehended these dangerous individuals in flagrante delicto, who according to the authorities have an important criminal record in the region.
Alias Jhonatan apparently had been committing crimes for 30 years, seven of them in the GAO ELN; He would be responsible for extorting merchants, he would be in charge of the commercialization of coca base paste, gold mining and the production of illegal income to finance the criminal activity of this organization in this region of the country. He is accused of the murder in 2019 of a civilian and a teacher in the hamlet of Puerto López, municipality of El Bagre, in Antioquia. Its area of criminal interference would be the hamlets Pueblo Negro and La Malena, in the municipality of Zaragoza, and Puerto López, in El Bagre.
For his part, alias Odin, would be responsible for extorting miners of the region. He would have been a low-level guerrilla fighter of alias Samuelito, ringleader of the Darío Ramírez Castro front of war, and in 2020, he apparently was designated as third ringleader of the armed structure.
During the operation, war material, communications equipment and information of interest for the analysis of military intelligence were found.
These dangerous individuals were put into custody of the judicial authorities, who ordered prison for the crime of rebellion.
Source: National Army - News Agency
