Great article on one of the "Invisible" Narco's. We hear all about El Chapo and Escobar but I always wonder about the ones that go under the radar and quietly make there money away from the limelight.
The author does some great investigative journalism to uncover Memo and it really gives a clear picture how the Guerrillas and Narcos worked together after the fall of Escobar and the Medellin Cartel.
The chief of the Public Prosecution Service in Colombia confirmed in an interview this week that an extremely wealthy Colombian, who heads a real estate company in Madrid, is indeed a cocaine trader, known only in small circles in Colombia as The ghost. His identity and whereabouts were revealed by Colombian journalists last month.
In a radio interview , Attorney General Francisco Barbosa now says that police investigations have concluded that Acevedo Giraldo is indeed the criminal Memo Fantasma.
Sensitive The case is sensitive in Colombia because it was published in April about a business relationship between the husband of Colombian Vice President Marta LucÃa RamÃrez and a Colombian company owned by Acevedo Giraldo. The vice president denied being aware of this.
After the publication by InsightCrime, Acevedo Giraldo filed a complaint of defamation and slander in Colombia .
The Colombian police completed an investigation file on Acevedo Giraldo in April, according to the Attorney General. As of now, the man is not known to be actively tracked down by either the Colombian authorities or the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). It is unknown whether justice in Colombia now wants to start a case against him.
