Colombian police report that four individuals were detained Tuesday in an international drug bust, accused of laundering $28 million in drug money seized by Colombian authorities in September 2009, reports Radio Santafe.
According to Colombian investigators from DIJIN, the judicial branch of the police, Luis Agustin Caicedo Velandia, alias “Lucho;” Claudio Javier Silva Otalora, alias “El Patron;” Franklin Alain Gaitan, alias “Sergio,” and Ricardo Villarraga Franco, alias “El Profesional,” were arrested Tuesday morning in various locations, in Argentina and the Colombian departments of Tolima and Meta.
Colombian police claim that the captured men were key components to the transportation and money-laundering operations of new-age Colombian cartels.
The arrests come after authorities opened an investigation following the September capture in coastal city of Buenaventura of $28 million in cash concealed in several shipping containers, that allegedly belonged to the drug-trafficking kingpin brothers “Los Comba” – Luis Enrique and Javier Antonio Calle Serna.