Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, still had seven years of sentence left in the United States and possibly faced other years in prison in Colombia, however, his health deteriorated and he died a few hours ago.
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Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, who still had seven years to go in his sentence in Florida, United States, would have died a few hours ago, as a result of different health problems that have worsened in the last three years.
Although the ex-capo of the Cali Cartel had asked for his freedom as a result “for fear” of Covid-19, a judge denied it and he remained in prison.
He remained imprisoned because there was no risk of coronavirus in the prison where he was located, Butner (Federal Medical Center, in Durham County, North Carolina, USA).
The US federal judge, Federico Moreno, determined that he would not be released before completing his entire sentence in a prison in that country. And so it happened.
At that time it stated: “Rodríguez Orejuela’s medical condition, while far from perfect, is also far from extraordinary and compelling.”
The health of Gilberto Rodriguez
He has suffered two cancers, colon and prostate, was one of the leaders of the Cali Cartel, leadership that he shared with his brother Miguel, at the time of drug trafficking in Colombia.
He is 81 years old and has been serving a sentence in the United States since 2006.
It was estimated that he had accumulated more than 12 billion dollars.
Alias ’the chess player’, he was the strongest enemy of the leader of the Medellín Cartel, Pablo Escobar. And both fought a bloody battle in the country, which claimed the lives of hundreds of people.
In September 2021, a new scandal shook national politics, when the Rodríguez Orejuelas mentioned their financing of presidential campaigns, not only that of Ernesto Samper, but also that of Andrés Pastrana.
Statement from the former president@ernestosamperpabout the recent letter from the Rodríguez Orejuela brothers.@WRadioColombia pic.twitter.com/yfD5q5SDmM
– María Camila Díaz Roa (@ma_camiladiaz) September 8, 2021
This is the letter from Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela addressed to @AndresPastrana_ what explains at this time @jsanchezcristo in #SunriseW pic.twitter.com/OvWxzijsNq
– W Radio Colombia (@WRadioColombia) September 8, 2021
The Rodríguez Orejuelas were serving sentences in Colombia, but were extradited to the USwhere courts in Florida and New York accused them of sending more than 50 tons of cocaine to that country and in 2006 sentenced them each to 30 years in prison.
‘Check’ to the brothers Gilberto and Miguel, in 1995. At that time, one of the most important judicial events.
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