The Gulf Clan uses university students as mules offering to pay for their studies

Authorities have discovered a new way of drug trafficking abroad that began to implement the Gulf Clan: to use low-income university students as mules, promising them enough money to pay for their studies in good educational institutions.

The strategy was known after two young men, one from the border town of Cucuta, were captured at the El Dorado airport in Bogotá when they were planning to go in. Europe, with cocaine hydrochloride inside their body.

The criminal organization recruits university students aged 20 to 35, with economic needs, to turn them into mules; He said to Cable News the commander of the anti-drug police, Colonel Wilson Siza.

The departments of Norte de Santander and Cundinamarca are the main places of research for women. They give them money in advance to convince them, then teach them the details of the operation.

They tell them how to behave at the airport, what questions the authorities usually ask, how to dress and what means of transport they must take to transport themselves. Siza badured the media that it was about vulnerable people, more willing to take risks to pursue a professional career.

The authorities have confirmed Cable News that so far this year, they have captured 28 college students for drug trafficking and trafficking, when they are trying to travel like mules abroad. The figure means a 50% increase in these cases compared to the previous year.