The widow of Pablo Escobar and her son are in prison in Argentina for suspicion of money laundering. Victoria Henao, Juan Pablo Escobar Henao and also football player Mauricio Serna are suspected by several media in a study of a Colombian drug lord.
An investigating judge in Argentina suspects Henao of membership of a criminal organization that laundered criminal money. They would have worked for Colombian drug suspect José Piedrahita. They managed real estate and a well-known tango café.
The ties between the Escobar family and Argentina have been around for a long time. Henao and her son changed their name and settled in that country in the nineties. They are called María Isabel Santos Caballero and Juan Sebastián Marroquín Santos. Henao had been detained for some time in 1999.
Mauricio "Chicho" Serna used to play with Boca Juniors, the characteristic club from Buenos Aires and won the Copa Libertadores in 2000 and 2001. In 1998 he played for Colombia at the World Championships in France.