Dairo Antonio Úsaga, alias "Otoniel"

Author Information

InSight Crime

Date of Publication

2022 12:00 AM

Security Theme

Transnational Organized Crime

Keywords

Transnational Organized Crime, Organized Crime, Columbia, criminal activities, AGC, coca production, geopolitics, localized control

Description

Dairo Antonio Úsuga, alias “Otoniel,” was the head of Colombia’s most powerful criminal group, the Urabeños, and the country’s most wanted man. But his grip on power had steadily been as security forces gradually closed in and he was captured in the municipality of Necoclí, near Colombia's northern border with Panama, Colombia's President Ivan Duque announced on October 23.

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Dairo Antonio Úsaga, alias "Otoniel"

Dairo Antonio Úsuga, alias “Otoniel,” was the head of Colombia’s most powerful criminal group, the Urabeños, and the country’s most wanted man. But his grip on power had steadily been as security forces gradually closed in and he was captured in the municipality of Necoclí, near Colombia's northern border with Panama, Colombia's President Ivan Duque announced on October 23.