Piedad Córdoba’s brother is sentenced to 14 years in prison for drug trafficking in the US.

a court of NY this Friday, April 26, sentenced the brother of the deceased former Colombian senator to 14 years in prison Piedad CórdobaÁlvaro Córdoba, for conspiring with people linked to the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forcesto (FARC) to export cocaine to the United States.

Córdoba, 65 years old, He was also sentenced to four years of probation.according to a statement from the Prosecutor’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

The Colombian was extradited to New York in early 2023 and He pleaded guilty last January to the charge of drug traffickingfor which the prosecution requested between 17 and 21 years in prison.

“Those who intend to flood our streets with narcotics will face serious consequences, especially when they are associated with violent drug trafficking organizations such as the FARC”Prosecutor Damian Williams said in the statement.

According to the court, The Colombian negotiated with several people who he believed were drug traffickers of a Mexican cartel that was trying to distribute cocaine from Venezuela to the US, but in reality they collaborated with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

In December 2021, Córdoba “sold” to the alleged drug traffickers a sample of 5 kilograms of cocaine from a farm linked to the FARC and located on the outskirts of the Colombian city of Medellin (northwest), according to the Prosecutor’s Office.

The authority indicates that when he was arrested, in February 2022, was negotiating a more substantial deal with the Mexican cartel, for about 500 kilograms of cocaine weekly.

For your partSenator Piedad Córdoba, who died in January of this year, was part of the Historical Pactthe party that brought the Colombian president to power, Gustavo Petro.

Córdoba was accused of having links with the Colombian businessman Alex Saabreleased last December by the United States in a detainee exchange with Caracas and who currently serves as president of the International Center for Productive Investment (CIIP) of the Caribbean country.