Colombia’s most-wanted drug trafficker nabbed

Xinhua News Agency

BOGOTA – The Colombian government said on Saturday (Oct. 23) that Colombia’s most-wanted drug trafficker “Otoniel” has been captured.

According to the authorities, Dairo Antonio Usuga, who headed the country’s largest drug-trafficking gang known as the Gulf Clan, was captured in a rural area of the Department of Antioquia near the border with Panama.

After becoming the leader of the Gulf Clan, one of the most powerful criminal organizations in Colombia, Otoniel was considered one of the most wanted targets of Colombian authorities. (Xinhua) – bny

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