Dairo Antonio Ãsuga, known as Otoniel, was the boss of Colombia’s notorious Gulf Clan group which he ran in a ‘reign of terror’ for over ten years before law enforcement brought him down. He was sentenced Tuesday after he pleaded guilty in January to a number of charges
The notorious cartel drug lord seen as one of the world’s most dangerous has been sentenced to 45 years behind bars.
Dairo Antonio Ãsuga, better known as Otoniel, was the boss of a cartel and paramilitary group with a blood-drenched grip on much of northern Colombia and escaped capture for over 10 years.
Today, Ãsuga was sentenced to 45 years in prison after he pleaded guilty in January to high-level drug trafficking charges, admitting he oversaw the smuggling of tons of U.S.-bound cocaine and acknowledging “there was a lot of violence with the guerillas and the criminal gangs.”
“I apologize to the governments of the United States and of Colombia and to the victims of the crimes that I have committed,” Ãsuga, 51, said through a court interpreter.