Colombian authorities posted Monday after the former Chief Medellin Carl Carlos Lehder after the judge ruled that Drug shop issued issued in Colombia The 75-year-old has expired.
Lehder was arrested on Friday night shortly after landing inside BogotaThe airport, with immigration officials, saying that he still wanted in the South American country for drug trafficking and arms smuggling.
Lehder became the first Colombian drug dealers extradited United States After he was arrested during the party on his ranch.
The former trademark is extradited to the US in 1987. years, where he served more than 30 years in prison.
2020. Year, Lehder was released after he was performing two-thirds of his American punishment. Was deported GermanyWhere is the citizen too.
Lehder is not back Colombia From extradition in the United States. His lawyer, Sondra Macollins said he was trying to visit relatives when he arrived on Friday.
“Recover from cancer and has high problems in blood pressure,” Macollins said Blu radio columbia. “We’re talking about someone who spent years in dark cells.”
The Colombian authorities sentenced the drug trafficker in 1995. year, while serving a separate sentence in the American prison.
The chief of the cartel was sentenced to 24 years in prison in Colombia, which means that his sentence expired in 2019. years, according to Colombian law.
The son of the German immigrant who arrived in Colombia in the 1920s, Lehder began a criminal career in the 1970s when he lived with relatives in New York.
He used his contacts and his knowledge of the English to open the cocaine market for the medellish cartel and became a key ally of his boss Pablo Escobar.
Lehder bought land in Bahamas It has become a key stopping stop for cocaine flights.
He owned a luxurious village hotel known as the aleman’s crew, which is in cage lions on their grounds and a great statue of Lehder’s favorite musician, John Lennon.
In the United States, Lehder was initially sentenced to life in prison, but he managed to reduce the penalty by providing American investigators with information used to process the Panama Dictator Manuel Norieg.