:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/NVEGP4CSN5H53BO6PNZHZTFM7Y.jpg "The authorities are trying to confirm the murder and disappearance of alias Siopas, second in command of the Clan del Golfo")
Public Force intelligence agencies are trying to confirm if Wilmar Antonio Giraldo Quiróz, alias Siopas, the second in command of the Clan del Golfo was murdered and disappeared by his own men amid an internal struggle that exists within the criminal group and has been unleashed since its former criminal boss, Dairo Antonio Úsuga ‘Otoniel’, was captured in October 2021, who was extradited to United States.
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The National Army is currently patrolling the area to ensure community safety.
The 42-year-old man was killed in the midst of a new conflict within this illegal organization, since “Siopas” is said to disagree with the approaches they have had with the national government to join the Total Peace initiative, which led to clashes on Monday February 13 and Tuesday February 14. among the criminals themselves, reported in the newspaper The weather.
in the criminal world The aforementioned rumor spread, after alleged relatives of Giraldo Quiróz claimed that he attended a meeting in the department of Chocó from which he never returned, appeared in the local newspaper The Colombian.
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The organization owned 22 properties strategically organized to carry out its criminal activities and which were fundamental to its finances and military strategies.
They added that intelligence agencies are checking with informants they have on hand, but for now they continue to assume he is alive, since there are no formal complaints about his disappearance, his lifeless body also did not appear.
If the murder of “Siopas” is confirmed, the dispute he had with Jobanis de Jesús Ávila Villadiego, alias Chiquito Malo and José Gonzalo Sánchez, alias Gonzalito, would come to an end. to establish his dominance in the criminal organization that calls itself the Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC).
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The authorities confirmed that the captured man had participated in several terrorist actions against the military forces and the civilian population of the region.
In an article published in the magazine Week, in August last year, they pointed out that the three criminals had extensive criminal records and were 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 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 regions of the country.”
For these days Torture and mutilation have been reported of the same members of the group in the service of drug trafficking with a specific purpose: whoever speaks suffers the consequences. They are not only in search of territorial control and the greatest military power, but also to establish contacts and monopoly of business with drug traffickers from Mexico and Europe, reports this media.
They also mentioned that According to the interceptions made by the authorities, the three criminal bosses were going into each other, which would explain the loss of creeks they had planted with billions of dollars they received from drug trafficking. and there were few who knew the location of the buried fortunes, only among themselves, and when they found them empty the dispute grew worse.
“ “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 criminals from the Caribbean and Magdalena Medio, also runs a drug trafficking business,” explained the director of the National Police at the time, General Jorge Luis Vargas, in this magazine.
Besides, the money the cartels paid them for cocaine shipments was lost along the way and they would keep that fortune between themselves, they referenced in Week.
And it would be the same with the profits and the illegal exploitation of gold in the rivers of the Pacific. So each sends his men to seek the big profits, without the knowledge of their former partners.