:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/63CG32WYMFE7RDXCDTQZUXUU5A.jpg "Authorities report the discovery of the body of alias ‘Siopas’, the second-in-command of the Clan del Golfo")
On Wednesday, March 1, 2023, the Colombian National Police reported the discovery of the body of who would be Wilmer Antonio Giraldo Quirozcalled aliases Siopwho served as deputy commander of the gulf clan.
A sniper assassinated a police patrolman in Sardinata (Norte de Santander)
“She is recovering, she was hit by the explosion of a grenade,” said Mayor Luis Carlos Anaya.
According to available information, the body was found in the municipality of Dadeiba, in northeastern Antioquia, specifically on the Uramita-Dabeiba highway, a sector known as La Recta, according to information from The Colombian.
The body Siop He had multiple gunshot wounds to the head, apparently he was in a very decomposed condition, he was dressed in military pants, black coveralls and rubber boots.
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This week, two police officers and a soldier lost their lives in the line of duty in this department on the border with Venezuela.
Dadieba firefighters were in charge of transferring the body to the morgue of the commune, where it was identified by officials of the Regional Laboratory of Forensic Science of Region No. 6, according to what was published by the aforementioned media. The information published by the magazine of the week points out that the body was ejected from a moving vehicle.
On February 28 of this year, the Force Publique reported that in Galeras, Sucre, the body of Omar Noguera Camacho, known as the boyacofourth commander of gulf clanalthough it is unclear if there is a relationship between the two events, as explained The viewer.
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On February 17, the Force Publique intelligence agencies announced that they were carrying out an investigation, knowing that possibly Siop he had been killed and disappeared by his own men.
Situation that could have arisen in relation to the internal conflicts that the illegal armed organization is going through, which would be a consequence of the capture of Dairo Antonio Úsuga, known as Othnielin October 2021, who is currently in prison in the United States.
The information came from the criminal world, where the rumor had spread, after alleged relatives of Giraldo Quiróz claimed that he had attended a meeting in the department of Chocó, from which he never returned. they highlighted in the regional newspaper The Colombian.
With the confirmation of the murder of Siop ended the dispute he had with Jobanis de Jesús Ávila Villadiego, alias little bad and José Gonzalo Sánchez, alias Gonzalitowith whom he disputed the domination of the criminal organization, self-proclaimed Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC).
In August 2022, authorities indicated that the three criminal men have extensive criminal records and are on the radar of Colombian and American authorities. For any information leading to his capture, the authorities pay up to 5 billion pesos.
According to information from the authorities, “people close to alias Chiquito Malo have made it possible to show that there would be a division of the Clan del Golfo into two large components that would be deployed in different areas of the country”.
The internal conflict within the criminal group would not only pursue territorial control and increase military capacity, but also establish contacts and a commercial monopoly with drug traffickers from Mexico and Europe, they reported in this media.
On those dates, said the director of the National Police at the time, General Jorge Luis Vargas. “Siopas” and “Chiquito Malo” are fighting over money that several leaders have stolen. The proceeds of drug trafficking are not reported. There is tension, dispute and fragmentation of these structures. ‘Gonzalito’, along with some Caribbean criminals and Magdalena Medio, also runs a drug trafficking business,” he explained to the aforementioned outlet.