The extravagant life of a Colombian capo in Madrid who escaped 20 years of justice, but not a drug vendetta

On the morning of March 12, 2018, a dark episode shook one of the most exclusive areas of Madrid. Two armed men on a motorcycle intercepted a vehicle pbading through Pozuelo de Alarcón and shot at his driver, a 43-year-old man who died on the scene. Later, the authorities identified the victim as being Ricardo Rojas Montes, of Colombian nationality, who figured as an important businessman in the Spanish city, but who hid a dark past.

Rojas lived with his family in the most luxurious urbanization of Madrid, La Finca, in a huge 535-meter house, two floors and a basement, which looked more like a wooded bunker surrounded by fences, cameras and alarms. The house had a living room with fireplace, a kitchen, three bedrooms each with bathroom, an office, a separate dressing room, a swimming pool with barbecue, a suite with bathroom and Jacuzzi and a large garden; according to the newspaper L & # 39; Spanish.

Only the lease of the manor costs about 5,000 euros per month. This was not for less in the city of Pozuelo de Alarcón, the most exclusive of the community of Madrid, where also reside important businessmen, politicians and even football players like Cristiano Ronaldo and James Rodríguez when they played at Real Madrid. Paradoxically, it is considered the safest in Europe because it has a private security system consisting of patrols 24 hours a day, video surveillance and an infrared system. motion detection.

Rojas went unnoticed among his neighbors, he looked like. Always dressed with Dolce & Gabanna clothing, with a € 400,000 Richard Mille watch and sneakers at the wheel. The luxuries that everyone believed were from a successful aerospace and real estate chain of companies. With these supposed companies, he justifies the huge tips he leaves in the Ten con Ten restaurant, the sailing trips, the incessant trips around Rome and the 18,000 euros he dedicates each year to his son's education. .

This day of March 2018, as every morning, he left his home with his wife – a beauty exreina, also from Colombia, whose name was never known – in a silver Volkswagen Golf to join his grandson of 9 years. years at the British Council School, one of the most expensive private schools in Spain (registrations are worth almost 6,000 euros during the quarter). A few minutes after leaving the child studying, Two motorcycle wounded approached the driver 's window and one of them unloaded the gun on him.

Rojas was shot and wounded 10 times, his wife was not injured, but the authorities found her in shock. The killers used a silencer, no one heard anything and only the pbadersby who pbaded the scene of the crime at the time of the facts could see the situation. After all the confusion, the police patrols were quick to close the scene with yellow tape. At that time, the knowledge of the victim could not explain who and why would like to kill the Colombian businessman.

According to the newspaper The weatherIn 2005, Rojas created Desarrollos Empresariales Atenas SL, located in Avenida del Mediterráneo in Madrid, which sold activities in the fields of electronics, clothing and real estate. In addition, he was a director of Aeronovo Ingenieros S.A., an aircraft construction and maintenance company. All these companies had already disappeared before his death, but nobody knew it.

In Colombia, the man – who has dual Spanish nationality – appears as president of a sports league in Bogotá, and even with the polling station in the city of Santa Marta, according to national media reports. It is for this reason that the Madrid elite was surprised to note the link that had united Rojas for decades to drug trafficking, for which he had been imprisoned three times. In fact, he had already survived other attacks: two kidnappings and a threat in which he held his mother with a gun.

The real background

Behind the facade of the businessman, Rojas was known in the mafia world as "Richi".. He was from the municipality of Zarzal, in Valle del Cauca. In the early 90s, when he was only 15, he offered hit man in a narco country, Gustavo Valencia. He ended up living on the farm where they produced cocaine. It was where he met a member of the group Miami, the organization with the largest field of medicine distribution in Madridat that time.

This is how he was found in Spain at age 17, as a narcotics trafficker. according to the Spanish newspaper The world. During these adventures, he meets the leader of Los Miami, Juan Carlos Peña, and begins to work for him. At the age of just 21, he already had two incomes in prison for drug trafficking, one in 1992 and the other in 1993. But he quickly betrayed his boss, took his contacts, got new members and started its own drug trafficking network.

At that time, some people told the newspaper anonymously The world, collaborated with police authorities to obtain immunity. Became a bright, reported major shipments from Colombia, while expanding its business. He was the biggest drug dealer in the big discotheques. In one of them, he met a Brazilian prostitute, Seanyn Avila-Serrati, known as "Sousou", who wore branded clothes and who went to the best drug centers. aesthetic with a job in a pub where he was paid 1,000 euros by the hour.

& # 39; Sousou & # 39 ;, who currently lives in La Vegas, was also a drug dealer. He was captured in France in 2005 with a cargo of cocaine. At that time, they linked Richi to Los Miami, who were Brazilian partners. In fact, a call intercepted by anti-Mafia agencies in Spain explains a megacargamento that had fallen and belonged to Colombia. In 1996, the police had already tried to dismantle the group.

Los Miami worked for 15 years distributing drugs in Madrid's best discotheques and laundering money from this illegal activity. Until 2011, during a joint operation by the FBI, Florida prosecutors and Spanish police captured 17 people in Spain and 4 in the United States, and they found a cove with 25 million d & # 39; euros. Rojas, although he was related to the investigation, got rid of it and it was at that time that he went to live in Pozuelo de Alarcón under the facade of a contractor.

There, they learned that "Richi" was a snitch, he had betrayed his former boss to be able to control the company. It is this free explanation and Spanish nationality that appears in the chart of The Miami. and as a couple of drug trafficker Seanyn Ávila. Even after that, he was again jailed in 2016 for badaulting police officers who followed him. And in Colombia, the authorities connect him to the extradited Daniel 'Loco & # 39; Barrera, one of the country's largest drug traffickers.

At that time, "Richi" had a lot of enemies. Someone who worked with him said The world He received Colombian remittances that he had never paid, so one day, one of the criminal gangs he tried to cheat kept his mother and called him when they pointed a gun at him, threatening to kill her if he did not pay the debt. He had to access this time, but in many other cases he did not do it.

"All that created in our world a celebrity who, in addition to being a snitch, was a deadly badtail (…) He owed so much money to so many different cartels, we knew that it would arrive sooner or later, "he said. a narco from Madrid to The world. And in fact, what the authorities could verify was that his murder was a settlement of accounts by a Colombian collection office to which he would have paid 50,000 euros.