Nariño. In the framework of the 'Diamante' Plan, troops of the Twenty-Third Brigade, of the Third Division of the National Army, in a coordinated and inter-institutional operation with the Intelligence Section of the National Police and the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, gave a heavy blow against the structures and logistics of the 'Jaime Toño Obando' Company of the Organized Armed Group, GAO, of the ELN. It is the capture of Norbey Francisco Ordoñez, alias 'Pirulay', who is accused of being the head of this GAO and he would be the intellectual author of the six terrorist attacks perpetrated against the Trans-Andean pipeline this year.
The military operation that led to the capture of alias 'Pirulay', born in the village Cristo Rey, in the municipality of Mallama, in the department of Nariño, was carried out in the village of La Oscurana, in the municipality of Mallama, by troops of the Mechanized Cavalry Group No. 3 'General José María Cabal', through intelligence work with the Office of the Prosecutor, in coordination with the National Police.
'Pirulay' was a ringleader of militias and 'finances', a low-level guerrilla and a member of the ELN's terrorist support network. Among his criminal records he planned the execution of terrorist attacks and the pumping of the Transandino pipeline. He was in charge of the collection of money from extortion, drug trafficking, illegal exploitation, as well as forced disappearances, kidnappings, terrorist operations against the civilian population, hired killers and forced displacement against the inhabitants with the purpose of appropriating their lands.
In 2015, he was accused of participating in the kidnapping of the merchant Federico Gutiérrez Arciniegas, for whom he made economic demands via telephone to his relatives for 200 million pesos.
Alias 'Pirulay', 33, in the same way had a network of militias organized in the areas of interference of his criminal operations, such as the municipalities of Mallama, Santa Cruz de Guachavez, Túquerres, Pupiales, Samaniego, Ricaurte and Tumaco.
At the time of his detention, alias 'Pirulay' had two arrest warrants for the crimes of kidnapping, extortion, rebellion and illegal carrying of firearms. The man was put into custody of the Attorney General's Office for preliminary hearings and begin his judicial process.
Source: National Army
