Lucio Burbano, alleged “invisible narco” from the Pacific, has fallen

This Thursday, October 12, the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation announced that in an investigative work in collaboration with the Dijin – Gesin of the National Police, the National Navy and the Attorney General of the State of Ecuador, It was allowed to identify all members of one of the aforementioned networks to coordinate the release of cocaine from the Pacific and who had relations with the criminal group Los Contadores.

As reported by the Prosecutor’s Office, the facility would also have links with the Oliver Sinisterra Organized Residual Armed Group (Gaor) and other drug trafficking organizations that commit crimes in the region. In the judicial proceedings conducted in Cali (Valle del Cauca), Tumaco and El Charco (Nariño), 10 people were captured, including the alleged leader, Lucio Burbano Portilla.

The investigating body found that during the proceedings on two buildings located north of Cali, where Burbano lived and was, seized little more than 8,500 million pesos in cash, 3,700 dollars, 11 luxury watches, firearms, documents with inside information on judicial activities and the public force.

“According to the researchers, Mr presumably directed transnational drug trafficking activities by criminal alliances with GAOR Óliver Sinisterra and Los Contadores in Tumaco “, assured the public force.

In the agent a total of 10 people were captured in Colombia and another 5 in Ecuador. Those arrested in the country were presented before a Cali guarantee control judge and a prosecutor of the Special Directorate Against Criminal Organizations, who accused them, based on their level of responsibility: criminal association aimed at committing crimes, trafficking, manufacturing or possessing drugs and money laundering.

According to the prosecutor’s office, Lucio Burbano Portilla, the alleged head of this drug trafficking organization, would be the articulator of all criminal activities, and would remain under the radar of the authorities.

“The test material indicates this he would maintain contact with the residual Oliver Sinisterra facility to ensure the collection of cocaine in the areas surrounding Tumaco (Nariño) and their subsequent departure by boat to Pampanal de Bolívar, Ecuador “, assured the investigative body.

Furthermore, the institution announced that, “This man, allegedly demobilized from the extinct self-defense group” Libertadores del Sur ” He grouped shipments from different drug trafficking organizations, which paid him to put them in Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico and the United States“.

In a year of investigating this facility, two shipments were seized. One of the 340 kilograms of cocaine, on 2 October 2019, in Pampanal de Bolívar (Ecuador). Another two tons of drugs, on 3 August, in Acapulco (Mexico).

El Espectador reported that Burbano started working in the maritime directorate of Tumaco, until he entered the drug trafficking business as a transporter, in whose role he managed “Having the ability to lead the shipment of up to 5 tons of alkaloid per month, via fast Go boats, from the Ecuadorian coast to North America, after transit through Mexico.” For similar facts, the Mr, was captured in 2004 and 2007 and in 2005 they took over $ 15,000 million in properties in Putumayo, Nariño and Cauca.

In addition to the capture of Burbano, the Attorney General of the Nation, Francisco Barbosa Delgado, revealed that in Imbilí, in the rural area of ​​Tumaco (Nariño), Three leaders and three alleged members of the Los Contadores organization were also arrested. They will be charged with conspiracy offenses to commit a crime and illegal possession of weapons.

“The Public Prosecutor of the Nation with its territorial strategies, with its sectorized work, continues to give answers and results to the country”concluded Barbosa.

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