There were more than 16 establishments dedicated to the sale of sushi that were occupied by the Attorney General’s Office.
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A total of 20 properties, four companies and 16 commercial establishments dedicated to the sale of oriental food, known as Sushi Market, were occupied by the Prosecutor’s Office, as they would belong to an invisible drug trafficker known as Julio Andrés Murillo, alias H1 either The Tsarwho was part of a transnational organization dedicated to drug trafficking.
In a joint task between the Police, Interpol, the Prosecutor’s Office and with the support of French authorities, the seizure and suspension of the dispositive power of the assets of H1, which were guaranteed by a total of $14,000 million. Regarding the Sushi Market chain, which is presumed to have been used to launder drug trafficking money, some of its restaurants were occupied in Medellín, Rionegro, Envigado and Bello (Antioquia), as well as in Pereira (Risaralda), Cali (Valle del Cauca) and Bogotá.
Also known in the mafia world as “the sushi guy,” Murillo, 49, according to Dijin investigations, would be an invisible drug trafficker who is part of a transnational organization dedicated to shipping cocaine to Europe. According to the authorities, 1,623 kilograms of the hydrochloride had been seized from said organization in 2021, more precisely in the city of Huelva, in Spain. In fact, alias H1 He was captured in February of this year in Rionegro and was wanted by means of a red Interpol circular for the purpose of extradition to Spain, for drug trafficking crimes and for belonging to a criminal organization.
According to investigations, Sushi Market restaurants were apparently used to launder money from drug trafficking.
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Murillo’s career in the mafia world is not new. According to reports from the National Police, “the sushi guy” has been linked to the drug trafficking business for more than 30 years, even since Pablo Escobar was wanted by Colombian and international authorities in the 1990s. In fact, Murillo would be one of the main partners of Jonas Sture Falk, better known as the ‘Swedish Pablo Escobar’, for sending cocaine stashes to the old continent.
Murillo is also accused of being connected to Italian and Moroccan mafia networks, which dominate the cocaine transport and sale business in Europe and use the ports of Antwerp (Belgium) and Rotterdam (Netherlands) to mobilize funds. stashes.
According to the National Police, H1 He was wanted by the Spanish authorities, so he decided to flee to Venezuela and then move to Cúcuta (Norte de Santander). In February of this year he moved to Rionegro for a family visit, where he was captured on February 26.
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