The Court for the Southern District of New York, United States, sentenced today, April 26, Álvaro Fredy Córdoba Ruíz, brother of former senator Piedad Córdoba, to 14 years in prison for the crime of drug trafficking, to which he had pleaded guilty in the month of last January.
The prosecutors in the case had requested between 17 and 21 years in prison for the brother of the deceased former senator, who was captured in Colombia in February 2022 and extradited to the United States in January 2023.
According to El Tiempo, in an 18-page document, prepared by prosecutor Damian Williams, “it is stated that Córdoba allegedly conspired to obtain and distribute tons of cocaine destined for the United States.”
It is important to keep in mind that Álvaro Córdoba is accused of conspiring to import and distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine into North American territory.
“Between July 2021 and February 2022, I participated in a conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine that were going to be sent to the United States and I knew that what I was doing was wrong,” Córdoba told the cut at the time.
The investigations by the North American authorities would have shown that the brother of the deceased senator did it in the company of “Amanda Libia Palacio Mena—who was sentenced in the United States on April 11 to 14 years in prison—and Alberto Alonso Jaramillo Ramírez, as well as “other individuals associated with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc).”
Apparently, the Prosecutor’s Office of the North American country noted that Piedad Córdoba’s brother worked with undercover people from the DEA who sought to establish a cocaine supply line from Venezuela to the United States, as he believed they were Mexican drug traffickers from a Drug Trafficking Organization. drug trafficking organization.
According to what was revealed by El Tiempo, the document shows some conversations between Córdoba and the drug trafficking organization. In fact, the chats of the man investigated in the US “described his connections with his sister, a powerful politician in Colombia named Piedad Córdoba, indicating that, in exchange for financial and political support, she would help facilitate a cocaine association between the defendants and the Mexican DTO.”
It should be remembered that Córdoba’s arrest was surrounded by controversy, since his sister, the late Senator Piedad Córdoba, argued that it was all about political persecution. However, her brother himself confirmed that he committed a crime.
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