A former commander of now-defunct paramilitary group AUC has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for the 2000 murder of seven prosecution officials, reported local media Wednesday.
A judge in Valledupar sentenced Rodrigo Tovar Pupo, alias “Jorge 40”, to 25 years in prison.
The former commander of the AUC’s Northern Bloc reportedly accepted responsibility for the events of March 9, 2000 where, in the rural municipality of La Paz in the Cesar department, a CTI (Technical Investigation Unit) commission was intercepted by the AUC and subsequently murdered, dismembered and disappeared on orders from Jorge 40.
The ex-paramilitary commander was extradited to the United States in 2008 on drug related charges and has been in prison ever since.