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DEA, again in problems of corruption in Colombia

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For years, CAPtain Juan Pablo Mosquera was climbing positions in the National Police of Colombia and receiving praise from his superiors, until he became supervisor of a unit that collaborated closely with the United States anti -narcotics agents.

Today he faces a sentence of up to 20 years in prison in the United States, accused of betraying the DEA (acronym in English of drug control administration), collaborating with the traffickers who were supposed to fight.

Its arrest in 2018 and its subsequent extradition to the United States, which had not been reported so far, is another stain in the DEA program designed to train and support the police agencies of other countries, which has registered numerous cases of corruption andFiltrations with mortal consequences.

The unusual trial of someone who was an APpreciated collaborator occurs shortly after a government surveillance agency harshly criticized the Dea Headquarters in Washington for not properly supervising the people with whom they work abroad, not even later laterof sound scandals.

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"The DEA needs to be more attentive to the operations carried out in other countries because there is a lot.

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Mosquera will go to trial on October 13 in a Federal Court in Miami, accused of obstructing justice by selling evidence and information obtained by the special unit that supervised people in the sight of US researchers.

It is not clear why the DEA began to suspect Mosquera, 37 years old.The three -page accusation car does not give details of its alleged crimes.

But Juan Carlos Dávila, another accused with many collaboration history with the under world who is collaborating with American researchers, said Mosquera tried to recruit him to sell information to a figure that the DEA was investigating, an American who lived in Colombia with a false name.

The American, who was identified in the legal documents only by his initials, p.L., is described as someone who violated the terms of probation in Arkansas in the 1990Davila.

La DEA, otra vez en problemas por caso de corrupción en Colombia

I could refer to Kylan Patrick Liljebeck, accused in Miami shortly after Mosquera's arrest to conspire to smuggle 50 kilos of cocaine using a sailboat.

A person Dávila thought was an intermediary of the American in question turned out to be an informant of the DEA.

"Mosquera used her position in a corrupt way, to access information on the research and objectives of the DEA with the intention of profiting with that information," Dávila said in his agreement with US researchers.

Dávila, who would have been arrested in 2013 at the request of Italian justice for his relationship with the Sicilian mafia, agreed to declare against Mosquera in exchange for a reduced conviction.They could also declare five DEA agents and a Colombian officer, according to documents from the Prosecutor's Office.

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Prosecutors have numerous audio and video recordings of meetings between Dávila and DEA informants.In none of them would be Mosquera.

Daniel Hentschel, Mosquera's lawyer, declined to talk about the case, the same as US and DEA prosecutors.

Before his arrest, Mosquera directed a police unit in Cali that belongs to the DEA program known as “SIU” (Sensitive Investigative Unit, or delicate investigations unit), expression used to describe employees abroad that have been APproved.

The program was created to help DEA to conduct investigations in countries where drug trafficking begins, in which its agents face restrictions for being foreigners.

The DEA says that these units allowed the dismantling of large bands and the arrest of hundreds of bosses.Selected agents receive special five -week training at the DEA Academy in Virginia and take advantage of their ties with the DEA to climb positions in their countries' security forces.From its beginnings in the late 90s, the program expanded to more than 20 countries, including Thailand and Kenya.

To reduce risks and prevent corruption, agents must undergo rigorous investigations, including analysis to detect drug use and lies detectors.

But a hard report of the Inspector General indicated that the supervision made by the DEA of his Sius is insufficient and said that the agency did not learn the lessons derived from a decade of publicized scandals.

A SIU unit of Mexico was investigated by the United States Congress after circulating versions that a poster had killed dozens of civilians in 2011 after receiving information filtered by that unit.A commander of the same unit was accused in 2020 by the United States of accepting bribes of drug traffickers in exchange for protection.

In Honduras, another SIU unit was involved in the murder of four civilians during a failed raid, while in Haiti a police officer was APpointed head of one of these units despite not having passed a test with a detector of lies of the lies of the lies of theDEA.

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In Colombia, an exagent of the DEA who worked with SIU units declared last year of 19 charges related to the washing of millions of dollars of accounts controlled by the DEA and using the money to buy expensive sports cars and jewels of Tiffany.

The Inspector General verified that two members of a SIU unit accompanied agents from the DEA to parties with prostitutes organized by Narcos, in a scandal that motivated the resignation of the head of the DEA then Michele Leonhart in 2015.

After each of these incidents, the DEA did not make too many efforts to investigate leaks, leaving the matter in the hands of the local authorities of the countries, according to the report.

The Inspector General, on the other hand, considered "problematic" that the DEA is using less lies detector.Now he does it every three years instead of two.

Vigil said that the ideal would be to be tested with polygrAPhs every three or six months.

"Temptations are huge," he said.“The police gain little despite belonging to a special unit.(Your salary) will never compete with the money that the posters will pay for information ".

The new director of the DEA, Anne Milgram, requested a thorough investigation of the 91 units with which she works that agency abroad after the publication of the report.He said that areas that require improvements to gain efficiency, integrity and responsibility will be identified.

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