A little over a year after the first seizures were made through the Operation Falconon money laundering and drug traffickingthe alleged leader of that organization is still a fugitive from the authorities.
This is Erick Randhiel Mosquea Polanco, who is also known as Rodolfo Beltrán, El Sony 7, El Chiquito, El Hombre and/or Chite.
According to the accusation of the Public Ministry, the transnational criminal organization was directed by the fugitive, who is attributed with trafficking cocaine from the Dominican Republic to Europe, the United States and Puerto Rico, having the city of Santiago as its command and operation center.
The prosecution body ensures that through the Operation Falconwhich in September 2021 launched dozens of raids and arrests, dismantled an alleged organized crime network that already in 2012 was trafficking at least 2,500 kilos of cocaine a week and that came to accumulate money laundering investments for at least 10,000 million pesos.
During the operations, the authorities have apprehended more than 30 people, seizing buildings, commercial premises, houses, apartments, warehouses and land on which residential projects were being built.
The detainees are accused of incurring in the crimes of association of malefactors for the commission of crimes such as drug traffickingmoney laundering and firearms trafficking, activities through which millionaires accumulated movable and immovable property, billions of pesos in cash and vehicles.
Some of these involved lent their names for the acquisition of millionaire assets.
The accusation of the Public Ministry establishes that the network of the Operation Falcon he engaged in the illegal sponsorship of political campaigns to secure protection and immunity.
According to the body, there are three deputies linked to the money laundering organization resulting from the drug trafficking.
The legislators under investigation are Nelson Rafael Marmolejos Gil, Héctor Darío Féliz Féliz and Faustina Guerrero Cabrera, who are among those involved in the alleged criminal structure.
The case has been considered by the authorities as the biggest against the drug trafficking and washed.
The Public Ministry had until midnight on Tuesday, February 27 to present the formal accusation against the defendants, who have been given preventive detention, house arrest, economic guarantees and periodic presentation.
By not presenting the conclusive part by the aforementioned date, Judge Job García, of the Second Investigating Court of the Santiago judicial district, granted another additional period of 15 days to conclude the investigation.
