In an exclusive shopping center in El Poblado, in Medellín, they met in June 2025 three leaders of a powerful drug trafficking organization that had cocaine laboratories in a sector of Doradal, in Puerto Triunfo (Antioquia), controlled by the ‘Gulf clan’.
One of those attending the meeting confessed to an investigator that that day they heard an audio that someone He leaked the names of at least 10 gangsters who were targeted by the Prosecutor’s Office.
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The fugitive and the USB
One of the properties seized from the ‘Los del Dorado’ organization Photo:Prosecutor’s Office
With that testimony, FBI agents and Colombian intelligence officers They discovered that a multimillion-dollar operation to transfer assets – valued at more than 22,000 million pesos – was initiated so that they would not be seized.
This is the same case that the mayor of Medellín, Federico Gutiérrez, referred to last Tuesday. According to the president, for 13 months, investigators tracked the assets of the bosses of the organization known as ‘los del Dorado’ and managed to seize 44 assets in Antioquia, Boyacá, Santander and Caquetá.
According to the file, the organization obtained coca base paste in Nariño, which they moved to clandestine laboratories in Puerto Triunfo and which they took, already processed, to the Caribbean coast in trucks of livestock and construction material. From there, it was sent by sea to the United States and Central America.
Although no names or further details of the case were given, The Investigative Unit of EL TIEMPO established for the first time the name of the ringleader who became an informant, the list of seized assets and the identities of the leaders of ‘los del Dorado’.
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The seized fortune
Edilson Palacio Orjuela, alias Calvo. Photo:Private file
The seized fortune is linked to Edilson Palacio Orjuela, alias Calvo, and leader of the organization; Olfer Rodríguez Vanegas, alias Olfer; Orlay Sánchez Rojas, alias Negrito; Jesús María Daza Cifuentes, alias Mono Chucho; and Eisar Yulian Monsalve González, alias Yulian.
The latter became a key piece of the case when his attorney sent a right of petition to the Prosecutor’s Office, in August 2025, in which he indicated that, Through a source, he had learned of the investigation against the organization and requested that no arrest warrants or raids be issued against alias Yulian.
That request confirmed the leak and accelerated the operation. However, alias Yulian managed to escape and is today a fugitive.
The surprise is that alias Calvo and Olfer, heads of the organization, underwent interrogations in search of a pre-agreement. And in this not only did they end up talking about the meeting in the El Poblado shopping center, but they also admitted that they paid officials to access confidential information.
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‘Terror’ and the season
Oliverio Isaza, alias Terror Photo:Private file
The bosses said that alias Yulian played them audio from a lawyer who claimed to have contacts in the Prosecutor’s Office and who said that their arrests were imminent.
EL TIEMPO omits the name of the professional, who is being sought.
“He said that money or an incentive had to be given to an investigator to delay this situation. Alias Yulian had several audios of the lawyer, among them it shows where the name ‘Olfer’ was in a document along with more or less ten people. I managed to read that there was ‘Olfer’, ‘Yulian’, ‘Mono’ ‘Chucho’, ‘Calvo’, ‘Calero’ and others that I don’t remember. That document had the logo of the Prosecutor’s Office”said one of the bosses.
And they assured that a former police official offered them access to the investigative file in exchange for 12 million pesos. In fact, alias El Calvo said that the former police officer gave them a USB with information about the operation against him.
The Investigative Unit of EL TIEMPO established that, from the searches of the bosses, it was determined that the cocaine laboratories in Puerto Triunfo were in the area of influence of the ‘Gulf clan’ and specifically with Oliverio Isaza Gómez, alias Terror, who died in an operation by the Military Forces in February 2025.
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Cash payments
Cocaine seized from the organization. Photo:Private file
In the file there is evidence that the bosses paid ‘Terror’ to obtain authorizations to enter the area, guarantee the security of cocaine laboratories and facilitate the loading of cocaine.
“In interceptions of the communications of members of the network, it was recorded that payments were made in cash and, in some cases, through the delivery of goods, including high-end vehicles”an investigator told EL TIEMPO.
In fact, this newspaper had access to the content of some of the interceptions in which the payment of debts and the transfer of assets were discussed.
In February 2020, Edilson Palacio, alias El Calvo, spoke with another member of the network about the seizure of 736 kilos of cocaine hidden in a truck leaving Puerto Triunfo. He claimed that a head of the organization was pressuring them and that Orlay Sánchez, alias Negrito, would have to cover the debt for the lost merchandise, so he ended up selling a service station in Florencia (Caquetá), on a lot of more than 2,000 square meters, to a close friend of ‘Calvo’.
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The list of goods
One of the gas stations seized from ‘Los del Dorado’. Photo:Private file
That service station appears among the seized assets. It has a commercial value of 4,000 million pesos, but they paid 156 million pesos.
What is striking is that, while ‘Calvo’ appeared in the Sisbén, in the range of extreme poverty, traveled to Spain, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Ecuador and Mexico.
Other assets linked to ‘Calvo’, today subject to precautionary measures of forfeiture of ownership, appear: a house in Puerto Boyacá (Boyacá) and two premises in the Velásquez building, which were transferred to a third a month after the ringleader was captured. In addition, a 156 square meter apartment on the 13th floor of the Santorini building, in Envigado (Antioquia), with a commercial value of 1,200 million pesos.
And alias Olfer, the other leader of the organization, had a house in Puerto Boyacá and seven lots in the Sacamujeres village seized, as well as another one-hectare property in the same sector, on the Sortilegio ranch.
In the center of that municipality, They seized an apartment from ‘Olfer’ and his relatives, and another in the Laureles neighborhood of Medellín, worth 900 million pesos.
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‘The Aurora’
Property seized from ‘Los del Dorado’. Photo:Private file
A 39-hectare lot in La Montañita (Caquetá) was seized from Orlay Sánchez, alias el Negrito, and his associates, as well as the ‘El Besubio’ property.
In that sector, precautionary measures were also imposed on another property called ‘La Aurora’, of 103 hectares, and ‘Los Laures’, in the municipality of El Puajil. And lots appear for alias Yulian in El Doradal (Antioquia).
A lot in the municipality of Sonsón (Antioquia) and a property called ‘La Albania’, in Cimitarra (Santander), of 128 hectares, which had a commercial value of 1,925 million pesos. In addition, the ‘La Venada’ farm, in Cimitarra (Santander), of 102 hectares, which had a commercial value of 2,477 million pesos.
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‘A new purpose’
Diana Patricia Bravo, president of the Special Assets Society (SAE). Photo:SAE
In Medellin, The S&G SAS Business Group, linked to ‘Negrito’, dedicated to real estate activities, was seized.
“Every asset seized as a result of the fight against criminal organizations has a new purpose and an opportunity, so that these assets stop being at the service of crime and begin to serve society and the strengthening of the state. With transparent management and action against any signs of corruption, the seized assets will not remain at the service of illegal economic interests, and will be directed in favor of society and the state,” Diana Patricia Bravo, new president of the Sociedad de Activos Especiales (SAE), an entity that also participated in the asset forfeiture operations, assured the Investigative Unit of EL TIEMPO.
The FBI already knows who the lawyer and the former police officer were the leakers of information, and now both are the new targets of intelligence agents.
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