Santo Domingo.- «Weapons for cocaine» It was the exchange that those involved maintained in the dismantled drug trafficking network through the «Operation NK Buffalo», with South American paramilitaries.
Court will hear coercive measures on Saturday for those involved in Operation Buffalo NK
This is indicated in the prosecution file of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, a document that will be used to learn coercive measures against these defendants in the next few hours.
The MP’s request establishes that the network, which was dismantled early last Wednesday morning, would have moved large shipments of drugs from South America (Republic of Colombia and Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) to Puerto Rico, the United States and Europe via the Dominican Republic.
All via speedboats and fishing boats.
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He also maintains that once the substances entered Dominican territory and Puerto Rican soil, logistics were carried out to send them to the United States and Europe, where, on occasions, their value tripled, generating exorbitant illicit profits for the members of the structure.
Shipments
Seven important shipments of cocaine were seized occupied between the year 2021 to date to the criminal structure that he allegedly headed in the country Rafael Ynoa Santana (El Pocho).
The authorities revealed that, according to the evidence, the criminal structure with links to South American paramilitaries and the Sinaloa Cartel, Approximately two tons of cocaine were confiscated in Dominican territorial waters and ports.
They also determined that Ynoa Santana “El Pocho” He was the Colombian’s partner Juan Carlos Lopez Macias “The Nephew”, Renowned drug trafficker sentenced to 15 years in prison, who exchanged weapons for cocaine to paramilitary structures.
‘The Nephew’ He sent large shipments to the Dominican Republic or Puerto Rico from Colombia and Venezuela using speedboats and fishing boats.
The file also establishes that after the substances entered Dominican territory and Puerto Rican soil, logistics were carried out to send them to the United States and Europe.
There, the value of these was sometimes tripled, generating exorbitant illicit profits for the members of the structure.
“The Nephew”
‘El Sobrino’ was arrested on June 27, 2022, during the realization of the Operation “Troy”in simultaneous action in several cities in Colombia, which configured an important operational result that contributes to strengthening coexistence and citizen security in the region.
Through an investigation process, Colombian authorities intercepted conversations between López Macías, “el Sobrino,” and Ynoa Santana, “el Pocho,” in which they coordinated shipments of cocaine and weapons.
In one of those conversations, Ynoa Santana tells El Sobrino: “They have a lot of those brooms and Glocks here,” referring to short- and long-range weapons to “send to the guerrillas.”
The links between the structures Colombians and Dominicans were detected in the year 2020 when López Macías coordinated the shipment of two tons of cocaine.
López Macías was arrested for the first time in February 2012, in an operation against the Llano Cartel, which had ties to Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman.
On that occasion, El Sobrino was extradited to the United States, returning to Colombia in 2015 and immediately re-entering the world of drug trafficking.
Coercive measure
It is recalled that the Permanent Attention Court of the National District will hear this Saturday the request for coercive measures against the members of the international drug trafficking, contract killing, and money laundering network, dismantled by means of the Operation NK Buffalowhere approximately two tons of were seized cocaine coming from Colombia and Venezuela.
