The businessman Juan Daniel Sepúlveda Quintero said that he was the victim of a confusion and that the Venezuelan authorities pointed him out without carrying out a serious investigation beforehand
Colombian Juan Daniel Sepúlveda Quintero, who the Venezuelan government accused of being linked to the El Faraón coffee company and of attempting to traffic a shipment of cocaine through it, responded to authorities that he is not the one involved and that it is a case of confusion.
“I am Colombian, born in Medellín. All my roots are Colombian, both my parents and my grandparents and their ancestors. I am not a fugitive in Medellín, my permanent city of residence where I have been all my life. What Venezuelan media and journalists, such as Madelein García, say is false, that I am Venezuelan and have an ID from that country,” he told Infobae.
The businessman indicated that he is clearly faced with a confusion due to a homonym, which does not justify the use of his image and the name of his company without any real prior consent. investigation.
Juan Daniel Sepúlveda Quintero was not only singled out by the Venezuelan Minister of Transport but also by journalist Madelein García, who published a photograph of the businessman on social media accusing him of being a fugitive.
*Read also: French Navy seizes more than a thousand kilos of cocaine on a Venezuelan ship
The Colombian businessman believes that they searched on the internet for “Daniel Sepúlveda” as the owner of Café El Faraón and among the searches they saw that there was a Daniel Sepúlveda owner of the company Coffee Traits and they simply said that they were the same person, when they are different people, with different nationalities and no relationship between them.
Last week, the Bolivarian National Guard reported that it had thwarted the shipment of three tons of cocaine that were camouflaged in coffee packages “from Colombia.” The drugs were supposed to be taken to Afghanistan using a Turkish Airlines plane. Thirteen people have been arrested in connection with the case.
Post Views: 743
