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Brother of Former Paramilitary Chief Arrested in Colombia
A brother of former warlord Salvatore Mancuso was arrested along with three other people accused of having links with the disbanded AUC rightist militia federation and of participating in 18 murders, Colombian police reported Tuesday.
The arrests of Cesar Fernando Mancuso Gomez and the other three people were carried out in Monteria, capital of the Caribbean province of Cordoba.
The men in custody are accused of collaborating with the Cordoba Bloc of the AUC and among the murders with which they are linked is that of union leader Oscar Dario Soto Polo, who was killed in Monteria in June 2011, the police added in a statement.
Implicated in that crime are four other people, including Domenico Mancuso, the cousin of Salvatore Mancuso, who was captured on Aug. 6 in Italy.
The other people arrested in the operation are Hiran Jose Herazo, an attorney who apparently took care of legal matters for the Mancuso family; Marco Antonio Giraldo Torres and Fernando Manuel Romero.
The arrested men will have to respond to charges of murder and aggravated criminal conspiracy.
The AUC demobilized in 2005-2006 during the government of then-President Alvaro Uribe, and its main leaders, including Salvatore Mancuso, were extradited to the United States in subsequent years.
Mancuso is serving a 24-year prison sentence in the United States after being convicted of drug trafficking, money laundering and financing terrorism.
A U.S. diplomatic cable disseminated by WikiLeaks attributed more than 250,000 killings to the AUC.
Published in Latino Daily News
Source: http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/latino-daily-news/details/brother-of-former-paramilitary-chief-arrested-in-colombia/31104#When:11:01:19Z
