Global Courant 2023-05-22 10:49:16
The extradited Mario Rojel Urbina Miranda was in charge of hiding in coves the millions of dollars left by the valley valley brothers in The Spirit, Copanawaiting his return, according to anti-drug agents who searched for him for months until his recent capture.
Miguel Arnulfo Valle Valle and his brother Luis, who dominated the drug trade in western Honduras, employed Mario Rojel Urbina to participate in the delivery of shipments of illicit proceeds to other groups of traffickers.
Urbina came to manage his own staff of employees. Although they worked under his supervision, they were at the command of the criminal group of the Valley Valley brothers.
According to the accusation of United States Department of StateUrbina was part of the circle of people close to the leaders who collaborated in the activities of cocaine trafficking.
The Honduran was extradited to the United States on May 12, after being captured on February 18 in New Arcadia, Copan.
He will face trial in a court of the Eastern District of Virginia for the crimes of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and conspiracy to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine. with the knowledge and intention that it would be imported into USA.
In addition, he faces the crime of money launderingTherefore, the penalties exceed ten years in prison.
The defendant appeared before Judge Iván Davies at the detention hearing, where he requested to defend himself in freedom, for which his defense offered a million-dollar bail, which was denied.
The judge denied the request for bail and the Honduran was sent to prison, because in addition to the fact that the crimes charged exceeded ten years, they also did not present evidence of their innocence.
The defendant is part of a group of 15 members of the poster of the Valley Valleya number that includes their leaders, who were indicted in June 2014 for conspiring to send cocaine to USA.
Hiding place
Mario Rojel Urbina, also known as Marito, was a lieutenant in the Valle Valle criminal organization. Among his responsibilities was coordinating the trafficking of thousands of kilograms and collecting millions of dollars of the proceeds of the cocaine.
According to investigations by anti-drug agents in Honduras, much of the money that Mario Urbina collected after the capture of the valley valley brothers, It was put in coves supposedly located in remote mountains of El Espíritu, Copán, where it has remained for several years.
The agents commented that “Urbina said that they better kill him, because if he handed over the money it would be his death sentence and that of his family.”
The money was allegedly entrusted by the valley valley to have it available for his return, according to a source. So the now extradited was taking care of the fortune for a long time.
The investigations also point to the fact that the Honduran, for whom an arrest warrant for extradition purposes weighed, continued to operate from Honduras in drug trafficking with groups from Guatemala, where other relatives of the Valle Valle family, whom they called Los Relevos, also settled. .
The Criminal Investigation Technical Agency (attic), in the Relevo I operation in 2016 and Relevo II in November 2019, secured properties from this group and accused several of the partners of the assets for the crime of money laundering. Valley Valley.
In a statement, the Public ministry during the Relevo I operation, it reported that they had captured Luis Alonzo Valle García (son of Luis Valle Valle) for the crime of murder, who was later released by an “illegal and arbitrary resolution of a magistrate, which was revoked by the Court of Appeals of Santa Rosa de Copán”.
After the revocation, the arrest warrant was issued for Luis Alonzo Valle García, Yosari Yasmín Valle García (daughter of Arnulfo Valle Valle) and against his partner Lendier Dominic Connor Toledo, who was supposedly murdered.
movements
The Valle Valle’s trusted man was hiding in various areas of Copán in the communities of El Porvenir, Potrerillos, La Unión and Vertientes.
Once a week Urbina would visit his family in the Vertientes de Florida village, Copán, where agents are investigating properties he bought with money from the proceeds of drug trafficking to cartels in Guatemala and Mexico.
drug operations
> According to the indictment, Mario Rojel Urbina was part of the Valle Valle drug trafficking organization. He helped transport drugs, as well as launder money from the sale in the United States. He was a trusted man of the leaders of the organization Luis and Miguel Arnulfo Valle, for whom he kept track of the drug shipments and was in charge of keeping them, some even take it for granted that he hid them in mountain coves. > Mario Urbina from Honduras sent 513 kilos of cocaine to Guatemala on February 9, 2014 along with Arnulfo Valle. > Mario Urbina trafficked 200 kilos of cocaine through Honduras on February 12, according to part of the indictment that is in court in Virginia, United States.
The Directorate for the Fight Against Drug Trafficking (DLCN) is currently analyzing the properties that the drug traffickers allegedly registered in the name of other people in the Property Institute.
They have also found many properties that were never registered, but they are aware that they belong to the extradited and that they must be insured to continue the process in the Domain Deprivation Court.
