Catalogue description The Columbian Connection': cocaine smuggling syndicate: Alberto Narvaez Zuluaga SOTO,...

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Details of MEPO 26/382
Reference: MEPO 26/382
Description:

The Columbian Connection': cocaine smuggling syndicate: Alberto Narvaez Zuluaga SOTO, Alfonso Cesareo Romero TOBON and Manuel Guslavo Sanchez RICO: convicted of conspiring to commit burglaries between 1 December 1973 and 29 July 1974 to finance the purchase of cocaine from Hernandez CORTES who was convicted of conspiracy to import cocaine and possession of drugs with intent to supply. Vincent John LIBERTO: convicted of nine counts of conspiracy to import cocaine; escaped from Wormwood Scrubs Prison, London, in December 1979, but was subsequently apprehended in USA in 1982 and extradited to the UK. Orderable at item level. With photographs
Note: The naming of a defendant within this catalogue does not imply guilt
Date: 1978 Jan 01 - 1985 Dec 31
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: CR 216/74/962 PART 2; CR 216/74/985; CR 178/75/2210
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Closed Or Retained Document, Open Description
Access conditions: Closed For 73 years
FOI decision date: 2009
Exemption 1: Health and Safety
Exemption 2: Personal information where the applicant is a 3rd party
Record opening date: 01 January 2059

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