AP: Cuba Deports Top Colombian Drug Suspect

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Cuba Deports Top Colombian Drug Suspect
Colombian official says Cubans deporting top Colombian drug suspect

BOGOTA, Colombia, Feb. 8, 2007
By FRANK BAJAK Associated Press Writer

(AP) Cuba will deport reputed drug kingpin Luis Hernando Gomez Bustamante to Colombia,
which plans to extradite him to the United States, a government official told The
Associated Press on Wednesday.

The Colombian official said Gomez was expected to arrive in Bogota on Thursday and would
be held at its heavily fortified chief prosecutor's office compound before being extradited
to the United States.

An extradition order has been signed, the official said. He spoke on condition he not be
further identified because he was not authorized to divulge the information.

Gomez, an alleged top boss of Colombia's Norte del Valle cartel known by his alias "Rasguno,"
is wanted on a U.S. indictment in New York on drug trafficking, racketeering and money-
laundering charges.

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