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Posted on Sat, Dec. 07, 2002
Ex-cartel leader extradited
Colombian sent to Miami
BY LARRY LEBOWITZ
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A leading figure in the old Cali drug cartel hierarchy was extradited to
Miami on Friday to face new heroin, cocaine and money laundering charges
just eight months after he was detained by Colombian officials.
Veteran U.S. drug agents and prosecutors praised the government of Colombian
President Alvaro Uribe for speed with which they removed accused trafficker
Victor Julio Patiño Fómeque.
''We got him out of Colombia in eight months. That's unheard of,'' said
Special Agent Joe Kilmer, spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Administration
in Miami.
Patiño, 42, was escorted by a heavily armed contingent of Colombian police
to a DEA plane at the Eldorado Airport in Bogota. The plane landed at Miami
International Airport at 3:15 p.m. and Patiño was escorted directly to the
Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami.
Patiño is scheduled to make an initial appearance Monday before a federal
magistrate in Fort Lauderdale. In July 2001, a local grand jury indicted
him, under seal, by prosecutors attached to the Justice Department's
division of narcotics and dangerous drugs.
The case, at this early stage, focuses on 83 pounds of cocaine seized in
Miami in 1999 that were allegedly smuggled into the United States by a
network headed by Patiño.
Miami defense attorney Humberto Dominguez, as well as Patiño's lawyers in
Bogota, say some of the pending charges are based on crimes for which he
already served time in Colombia.
According to DEA files and published reports in Colombia, Patiño is a former
police officer-turned-cartel bodyguard who quickly rose through the ranks.
As early as 1986, the man known as ''Papi'' (Daddy) and ''El Químico'' (The
Chemist) was directing an eight-ton cocaine shipment to New York.
Patiño was indicted in 1993 in Miami as part of the landmark case that
contributed to the breakup of the Cali cartel, but never faced charges in
the United States.
In 1995, Patiño was one of several cartel figures who surrendered to
Colombian authorities, ensuring they would be safe from U.S. prosecution
because there was no extradition treaty at the time.
Patiño was sentenced to 12 years in Colombian prison in 1996 on drug charges
and for his involvement in the killing of a Colombian naval officer.
But Patiño served only seven years before he was released in February on
good behavior. Two months later, he was arrested in Bogota on a U.S. warrant
while Colombian police were searching homes and businesses after a string of
bombings.
During the extradition proceedings, the DEA alleged the Patiño organization
paid ``millions of dollars in bribes [to] a large number of Colombian
officials.''
In a report submitted in May to the Colombian government, the DEA said the
Patiño group allegedly bribed Navy Adm. Rodrigo Alfonso Quiñónez, 51,
military attaché at the Colombian Embassy in Israel and, until 1992, the
director of naval intelligence.
According to DEA Special Agent Christopher Miller, Patiño paid Quiñónez for
warning of any government action planned against the drug traffickers.
Quiñónez denied the charges.
But three weeks ago, the State Department canceled Quiñónez's visa, denying
him entry to the United States. On Nov. 27, Quiñónez asked for retirement.
The Uribe government granted the request.
Herald staff translator Renato Pérez contributed to this report.
"There are some things the general public does not need to know and
shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take
legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether
to print what it knows.". -Katharine Graham, owner of The Washington Post
(1988 speech at CIA headquarters, Langley, Virginia.)
And there was kind of like an embarrassed little silence at the table, and
the editor of Newsweek, who was sitting next to me, says - I hope partly
jokingly but I don't know - he says, Sometimes we have to do what's good for
the country."
-Journalist Robert Parry (From the speech "Fooling America") Parry describes
the reaction of his editor at a dinner during the Iran-Contra affair after
Brent Scowcroft suggests that witnesses lie to protect Reagan's knowledge of
Iranian arms sales. March 1987
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