Colombian Police Arrest High Ranking Drug Smuggler

Colombia Police officials have reportedly arrested Samuai Chidi ‘Chiry’ Prince Siachi, a Nigerian national and suspected middleman between the country's largest drug trafficking organization, “Los Urabeños" and drug traffickers in the United States, Europe and Russia.

"In an international investigation with the assistance of North American law enforcement agencies, disbanded a criminal network dedicated to drug trafficking in various countries,” Colombian Special Investigations (Dijín) Director General Jorge Rodríguez Peralta said on Monday in Medellin.

Rodríguez went on to add that the police investigations obtained overwhelming evidence linking Siachi to the recruitment of drug mules used for the transportation of narcotics abroad.

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"He recruited people as drug mules, whom evaded authorities carrying narcotics, with links to the Russian Mafia,” Rodriguez said.

Colombian officials revealed that a 2005 novel titled “Sweet Betrayal,” written by Prince Chukwudi Oguaju, which is said to be inspired by the life of Prince Siachi, helped authorities identify him as the man referred to as Chiry by Clan Usuga members.

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The Urabeños have suffered the loss of a number of high profile members in recent weeks including the arrest of Spanish national, Manuel Monototo Mechado, who has also been identified as a high-level Urabeño operator.

In mid-March, President Juan Manuel Santos increased the rewards offered for information leading to the arrests of the Clan Usuga's leaders.

The gang, one of Colombia's most active drug trafficking organizations, is led by Dairo Antonio Usuga, who is the subject of a US$570,000 reward.

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