During the last 10 days, 12 members of the terrorist group have been arrested and more than two tons of cocaine hydrochloride have been found, damaging the finances of this outlaw group.
Through military operations framed in the Condor Plan, the Military Forces and the National Police neutralized terrorist operations of the Organized Armed Group, GAO, Clan del Golfo, with which they intended to attack the civilians, the Military Forces and the strategic resources of the Nation in the subregion of Urabá in the departments of Antioquia, Cordoba and Chocó.
In the first operation, thanks to the work of military intelligence, the Research Group Against the Criminal Organized Structures of the National Police, and the pressure of the Colombian Air Force, was possible the arrest of alías El Mono, who was in the municipality of Nueva Antioquia, in the municipality of Turbo, Antioquia.
Alias El Mono, with more than six years of criminal experience, was in the list of the most wanted of the department of Chocó, he was a zone ringleader of the Turbo Central substructure of the GAO Glan del Golfo, and, apparently, he was the one who led the terrorist operations during the first week of May of the current year, such as the incineration of two vehicles and four motorcycles, in the municipality of Turbo, Antioquia.
This individual is in the same way accused of the murder of the Colombian-Spanish environmental leader, Juana María Perea, on October 29, 2020, in the municipality Termales, municipality of Nuquí, department of Chocó, where allegedly members of the GAO Clan del Golfo kidnapped her and subsequently murdered her.
The second military operation was carried out in an urban area of the municipality of Apartadó, Antioquia, where the Moreno brothers, identified as alias Ramiro and alias Luis, were arrested; the first served as the armed ringleader of the group Norte Caribe of the Erlin Pino Duarte Structure of the GAO Clan del Golfo, with criminal interference in the departments of César, Guajira and Magdalena.
Alias Ramiro, with a criminal experience of 14 years, apparently participated in supporting and coordinating with the Central substructure of Turbo, activities of terrorist operations against civilians in the municipality of Currulao, of the municipality of Turbo, Antioquia, conducted by May 5 and 8 of this year.
The third military operation was conducted in the village of Santa Teresa of the municipality of Dabeiba, Antioquia, where troops of the National Army, with the support of the Police, found a hideout with 600 in units of explosives Indugel, 60 litres of explosives ANFO substructure Carlos Vasquez of the GAO Clan del Golfo inside, with those that are trying to make anti-personnel mines to attack the civilians and the Military Forces in the subregion of Urabá.
The last military operation was carried out in a joint work conducted by the Army and the Navy, where they arrived in the waters of the municipality of Acandí, Chocó department, finding more than a ton of cocaine hydrochloride and a pot of fiber that was abandoned by the individuals, where they were carrying the drug.
The arrested and the material were put into custody of the authorities. The three individuals will have to face charges of association to commit crimes for the purposes of homicide and manufacture, trafficking and carrying of firearms and ammunition.
Source: Press - National Army
