Colombian police say the son of ‘Cuco’ Vanoy, a paramilitary warlord extradited to the U.S. on drug charges, has been murdered.
Authorities say unidentified assailants shot and killed 32-year-old
Vladimir Vanoy on Sunday at the gate to his condominium outside Bogota.
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“Cuco” Vanoy is Validmir’s father. He was extradited to the United
States in May with 13 other far-right warlords. A Miami judge earlier
this month sentenced him to 24 years in prison on drug-trafficking
charges.
After the sentencing, the newspaper El Tiempo quoted one
of his lawyers as saying he would no longer cooperate with
investigations into crimes associated with far-right militias.
But El Tiempo later quoted a top prosecutor as saying “Cuco” Vanoy would cooperate.
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