Due to the expiration of terms, Guillermo León Acevedo Giraldo, the accused drug trafficker and ex-paramilitary known as ‘Ghost Memo’.
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According to the investigation, the 50-year-old accused was associated with several of the commanders or heads of fronts or groups outside the law, especially the Central Bolívar Bloc (BCB) of the Self-Defense Forces.
Acevedo Giraldo’s defense pointed out that the indictment against the captured man was filed on October 21 of last year and after 286 days the trial has not started and the process is in the preparatory stage.
It indicated that legally the term for the start of the trial is 240 days and that the delay for the start of the trial cannot be attributed to delaying maneuvers of the defense
The judge in the case agreed with him and ordered the release of the defendant who will continue to be linked to the investigation for the crimes of conspiracy to commit a crime, illicit enrichment and money laundering.
The process
The accusation says that between 1997 and 2007 Acevedo Giraldo was one of the main heads of the financial component of the Bolívar Central Bloc and was in charge of the movements of the proceeds of drug trafficking.
Capture of ‘Memo’ Ghost.
In fact, the letter also talks about the enigmatic criminal profile of Acevedo, and points out that this man was not part of the demobilization of the Auc in 2006, but went into hiding, managing to evade justice and avoid his extradition to the United States.
As documented by the accusing entity, Acevedo “directs an entire network, a criminal outsourcing, with the aim of acquiring, investing, hiding, managing, covering up, laundering and/or giving the appearance of legality to resources and real estate, which were obtained from a illegal source as already noted, in order to clean them up through purchase and sale operations of real estate towards him”.
And the accusation adds that in this operation he involved his grandmother and his mother, who are also prosecuted in
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