From the Simón Bolívar International Bridge, the Sector Vice President for Citizen Security and Peace, Remigio Ceballos, indicated that “we are precisely at this moment delivering dangerous criminals in binational police cooperation like never before.”
“We once again demonstrate international cooperation, adherence to international conventions and treaties,” Ceballos said.
The deportees were received with a strong security device by agents of Colombian Migration and the Criminal Investigation and Interpol Directorate (Dijin) of the Police at the Atanasio Girardot International Bridge, which connects Colombia with Venezuela.
“We appreciate the cooperation of the Ministry of People’s Power for Foreign Relations of Venezuela, which today deported five Colombians required for the commission of serious crimes in our country,” Colombian Defense Minister Iván said on his Twitter account. Velasquez.
Also Minister of People’s Power for Interior Relations, Justice and Peace, Remigio Ceballos, said that Venezuela has always maintained international cooperation, in strict adherence to compliance with the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, all our laws, clear and specific, in this case we carry out an expulsion procedure based on the immigration and foreigners law”.
Present at the ceremony were the commander of the Bolivarian National Police, Elio Estrada Paredes; the director of the Scientific Criminal and Criminal Investigation Corps, Douglas Rico; members of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), the Venezuelan consul in Colombia, Francisco Arias Cárdenas and Colombian Migration authorities.
Ceballos explained that between Venezuela and Colombia there are various conventions, agreements and memorandums of understanding on different matters, prevention and retention of contraband, reaffirmation of friendship, suppression of visas, prevention, control and repression against illicit drug trafficking and materials and substances. precursors, fight against kidnapping and other crimes, detention and recovery of land, air and water transport vehicles, transfer of convicted persons, cooperation and judicial assistance in criminal matters.
“We will continue advancing, they will not have spaces to commit crimes, we will be in permanent and direct combat in international cooperation with Brazil and Colombia,” he said.
The deportees
The criminals deported to Colombia are: Darío Everlan Leguisamon Pulido, Fabio Legusamon Pulido, Oscar Alexander Portilla Acedo, Jorge Eliécer Díaz Collazo, John Edison Segura Vargas with the crimes of torture, homicide, forced disappearance, conspiracy to commit a crime, aggravated homicide, illegal possession of firearms, injuries resulting in death, murder, organization, association of criminal groups and drug trafficking, arms, ammunition and explosives trafficking, kidnapping, aggravated robbery, torture and barbaric acts.
According to EFE, Jorge Eliécer Díaz Collazos, alias “Castor”, is the head of the Los Costeños criminal gang that has terrorized Barranquilla, a city located in the Colombian Caribbean.
According to information disclosed by the Colombian Defense Minister, Iván Velásquez, alias “Castor” is the head of the Los Costeños gang, while John Edison Segura, alias “Barbas”, is “the author of the kidnapping and homicide of the second lieutenant of the Police, Camilo Ojeda”, crime perpetrated on April 7, 2018 in Bogotá.
Authorities attribute an attack that left five dead and 14 injured on March 19 at a popular festival in Barranquilla to the dispute between the Los Costeños and Los Rastrojos gangs for control of drug trafficking.
Alias ”Castor” had been detained in a prison in Caracas since 2019 and when he was captured he had a blue Interpol circular issued by Colombia.
His extradition could not be achieved at the time of his capture due to the rupture of diplomatic relations between Colombia and Venezuela, which occurred in February 2019, but his reestablishment in August of last year also reactivated judicial and police cooperation between the two countries.
