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Joe Parkin Daniels in Medellín

Alleged Colombian cartel head due in New York court after extradition

Alleged Colombian drug trafficker Dairo Antonio Úsuga, also known as ‘Otoniel’, is escorted by police after Colombia extradited him to the United States, in Bogotá on Wednesday.
Alleged drug trafficker Dairo Antonio Úsuga, AKA ‘Otoniel’, is escorted by police after Colombia extradited him to the US, in Bogotá on Wednesday. Photograph: Colombia Policia Nacional/Reuters

The accused head of Colombia’s Gulf Clan cartel is due to appear in a federal court in New York on Thursday, as victims in his home country call for guarantees that he will come clean on atrocities committed by the feared paramilitary fighters he once commanded.

Dairo Antonio Úsuga, who is Colombia’s most wanted drug suspect for nearly a decade, was extradited from Colombia late on Wednesday on cocaine and weapons charges.

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