Mother of Uribe’s niece sentenced for drug-trafficking to U.S.
Mother of Uribe’s niece sentenced for drug-trafficking to U.S.
posted by Mimi Yagoub
Jan 22, 2014
The ex-lover of one of former President Alvaro Uribe’s brothers was sentenced by a U.S. court on Tuesday to more than four years in prison in relation to drug-trafficking charges.
Judge Joan Lenard sentenced Dolly Cifuentes, alias “la Menor,” to four years and nine months in prison for overseeing a large-scale international cocaine smuggling operation. Cifuentes is known to have been in a relationship with Jaime Alberto Uribe Velez, brother of former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe, with whom she had two children: Daniel Alberto and Ana Maria.
Cifuentes has been detained in a Miami federal prison since her extradition to the United States in August of 2012 for suspected links with the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel, considered by U.S. intelligence to be the most powerful drug-trafficking organizations in the world. Facing charges that placed her at the center of a massive drug ring, Cifuentes changed her plea to “guilty” in September of 2013.
The Colombian woman was accused in 2010 by the U.S. government of fabricating and importing at least 30 tons of cocaine destined for the North American country and to Guatemala and Colombia, stopping points on an international trafficking route destined for the United States. Last Tuesday, she was prosecuted for one of the five charges against her, with the other four being withdrawn by the prosecution.
More:
http://colombiareports.co/mother-uribes-niece-sentenced-drug-trafficking-us/
