He was born in Venezuela but came to Colombia when he was barely five years old.

This week, through a virtual hearing, charges were brought against him Mayra Alexandre Vera Duartea.k.a Monaaccused of financing the criminal structure the Costenos. This criminal group, say the authorities, is commanded by Jorge Eliecer Diaz Collazosa.k.a Beaver, who would also be the partner of the aforementioned offender. Who is she and why is she accused of terrorizing Barranquilla?

“Graduate Lawyer, have all the support of Beaver. She travels with four escorts in armored vans, is in direct contact with the people who collect the money from all the businesses and, it seems, would be responsible for coordinating the money laundering through the appropriation of private land, from the District and from the municipalities of Atlántico, which supposedly taught by Julius Caesar Polania, with whom he would have had a family relationship as father and daughter”, commented one of the investigators in charge of the Vera Duarte case, after his capture.

The leader of this criminal group, aged 37, is accused of having his command to about 500 peoples. With his subordinates, aka Beaverunderlines the investigation against him, would take care of the 80% of criminal activities which is denounced in the capital of the Atlantic. To obtain such power, he maintains a battle with other criminal networks such as ‘Los Pepes’, ‘Los Vega’ and ‘Los Rastrojos Costeños’. The war being waged is aimed at gaining control of micro-trafficking and extortion.

Jorge Eliécer Díaz Collazos was part of the Marines for three years he studied at university and was a taxi driver. “Short and long guns are handled and we are among 500 and 600 men, including lookouts and collaborators. We have a solid and consolidated structure,” the accused criminal told the newspaper’s team of investigative journalists. The weather. This means of communication revealed that he was in a dungeon located Caracas, Venezuela.

“Anyone who engages in illegal activity must pay a tax. We copied the so-called guerrilla weight. But In Barranquilla we do not allow extortion. And we don’t let them commit crimes in our neighborhoods. We do not kill for money,” he added during his interview with this national news portal. He was born in Venezuelain fact, but he arrived in Colombia when he was barely five years old.

It's alias
This is aka “Castor”, a man accused of terrorizing Barranquilla who now seeks to be a peacekeeper

As the authorities point out, aka Beaver He has been in the illegal trade for eleven years of their life. Although he is currently detained in the neighboring country, since 2019 he continues to lead the structure, in the same way as when he did it from the San Roque district, in downtown Barranquilla. Jorge Eliécer Díaz Collazos has been recruited by the criminal organization known as ‘the Countries’ in 2009period during which he worked as a law student.

The criminal structure of Los Costeños, explains the authority, has its hundreds of members divided into five fronts. Each core has a different purpose. While some undertake to usurp land, others extort, distribute narcotics and traffic in arms. There are also contract killers.

Arrested in Venezuela, he decides to send a letter to the President of the Republic, Gustavo Petro, offer oneself as ‘peace manager’. The people in the neighborhoods and the leaders of ‘Los Costeños’ respect me because I founded the organization to banish the paramilitaries. We have an ideology and we are ready to demobilize, hand over weapons and minors,” he said, according to information taken up by the newspaper. The weather.

The letter he commented on himselfdid not receive a response from the State. It is important to specify that the aliases Beaver he was not extradited to Colombia due to his dual nationality. This condition has led to a constant extension of the process.

“If I recover my freedom and we enter Total Peace, I introduce myself and therefore my life is in danger I tell the whole truth, including the links of ‘La Vega’ with members of the police and the prosecution,” he added in his conversation with the newspaper.

While Jorge Eliecer Diaz Collazos spends his days in detention Caracasthe second in command of the criminal organization is Carlos Alberto Ortiz Blanco, aka Cachete, who is also in prison in Colombia; precisely, in prison Saint Isidore of Popayán, Cauca.

Categorized in: