Former Medellin chief prosecutor Guillermo Leon Valencia Cossio was sentenced on Thursday to 15 years in prison by the Supreme Court for his ties to drug lord and former paramilitary chief Daniel Rendon Herrera, alias “Don Mario,” El Espectador reports.
Valencia was convicted on February 10 for conspiracy, suppression of documents and illicit enrichment after being found guilty of having ordered a former police commander to exclude the drug trafficker John Freddy Manco Torres, alias “El Indio,” from a police investigatio flow-chart of Don Mario’s gang, even though he was second-in-command.
The former official, who is the brother of former Minister for Interior and Justice Fabio Valencia Cossio, was arrested on September 25, 2008.
In October last year, the U.S. added him to a list of Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers banned from doing business with U.S. citizens.
