The FBI has launched a search for a Colombian attorney and a former police officer suspected of leaking sensitive information to a powerful drug-trafficking network, giving its leaders advance warning of an imminent crackdown on their fortune.
According to Colombian newspaper El Tiempo, the tip-off centered on a criminal organization known as “Los de El Dorado,” which ran cocaine labs in Doradal, a rural area in Puerto Triunfo, in the department of Antioquia, a region largely controlled by the notorious armed group known as the ‘Clan del Golfo.’ In June 2025, three of the group’s top figures met inside an upscale shopping mall in El Poblado, an affluent neighborhood in Medellín, Colombia’s second-largest city. According to one attendee who later spoke with investigators, the men listened that day to a leaked audio recording naming at least ten drug lords who were about to be targeted by Colombia’s Attorney General’s Office (known locally as the Fiscalía).
Armed with that warning, several suspects reportedly rushed to transfer ownership of luxury properties and other assets before authorities could seize them. Investigators estimate those transferred holdings were worth about 22 billion Colombian pesos — roughly $5.2 million USD at current exchange rates.
The case adds to a string of recent revelations about corruption within Colombia’s security and legal institutions, raising fresh questions about how deeply organized crime has infiltrated the systems meant to dismantle it.
For the full investigative report, read the original story at El Tiempo.
Source: FBI busca a abogada colombiana y a expolicía que alertaron a poderosos capos de incautación de narcofortuna (eltiempo.com). English version produced with AI assistance.
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