Narcotics police found him half a million dollars in cash that he couldn’t explain

On the night of Saturday 19, a white Lexus truck was stopped at a checkpoint set up by the anti-narcotics police on Avenida El Dorado, in Bogotá.

The checkpoint took place a few meters from the ADorado International Airport. According to information provided by the police a subject had camouflaged in the back seats a briefcase with bundles of dollars, in denomination of one hundred banknotes. According to information from El Tiempo newspaper, the driver of the luxury truck was carrying 500 thousand dollars hidden.

According to the information given by this newspaper, the truck with license plates FYS 326, was immobilized after the driver could not explain why he was carrying this money, which in Colombian pesos has the equivalent of 1800 million pesos.

The driver, holder of the citizenship card issued in Medellin, According to newspaper data, he was accompanied by other people who were arrested during the search. This subject has been identified as Julien Rico Duque, 43 years.

As Rico Duque had no way of explaining why he had so much money in his power, he was sued for the crime of money laundering, leaving it at the disposal of the authorities who have issued an insurance measure custody at the place of residence.

This is not the only case in which the various authorities have found citizens with a large sum of money. This caused the police to turn their attention to high-end cars.

Recall that on June 15 another truck, but a Toyota Prado, entered the same conditions to the 30th Army Brigade, in Cúcuta, and she was responsible for the atrocious attack since the thirty kilograms of explosives were camouflaged among the cushions of it.

In this regard, and according to information from the capital newspaper, the investigations carried out by the FBI, the nation’s attorney general’s office, and police They are trying to find out if they entered the databases of the traffic offices to locate the vehicle.

On the other hand, at the Bogotá checkpoint on 26th Street, the Police came to seize sharp weapons, narcotics, traumatic weapons, up to large sums of money.

Finally, so far this year, the Antinarcotics Directorate He came to capture 19 people for money laundering and, in addition, in the middle of these interventions the Police came to collect $ 3,145,409.

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