Carlos Mauro Oyos was appointed Attorney General of Colombia in September 1986. At the age of 47, Oyos was a righteous drug fighter like Lara and Gomez. On the issue of drug smuggling, he has taken a very clear-cut attitude, insisting on waging a resolute struggle against drug traffickers and actively advocating the extradition of drug trafficking leaders with solid evidence to the United States.
Oyos's appointment as attorney general coincided with the height of the Medellín cartel's assassinations, and many senior Colombian officials began to look for a way out for themselves in the face of such assassinations.
For example, when Enrique Parejo, the Minister of Justice of Colombia and Lara's successor, was in power, he also actively advocated the fight against drug smuggling, and was regarded by the Medellín drug cartel as an enemy who threatened to make it "Lara's second".
In the face of such intimidation and threats, Parejo had to resign several times in order to save his life. In order to protect him, the Colombian government agreed to his request and appointed him Colombian ambassador to Hungary to "take refuge" in Budapest.
However, even if Parejo resigned as Minister of Justice, he did not escape the shadow of assassination.
Soon after he took up his post in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, the Medellín drug cartel sent two professional killers to chase him down. As a result, on the streets of Budapest, he was targeted by the two killers and fired five shots at him.
Parejo died a tragic death in Budapest.
Through assassinations and bribery, the Medellín drug cartel has infiltrated all sectors of Colombian society, even finding their spokesmen in the judiciary, in parliament and in the army.
In 1985, a lieutenant colonel police officer named Victor Ferra was transferred by the Anti-Narcotics Police to work at an anti-drug checkpoint in the city of Bogotá.
Ferra was a committed anti-narcotics police officer, and since his arrival, he has actively cooperated with the anti-narcotics agencies in Bogotá and has done a very effective job. At this time, he discovered in his work that the two guards of the head of the checkpoint were secretly working for the Medellín drug cartel, and were tipping off the drug traffickers and selling information. During an anti-drug campaign, Fira also discovered that they had quietly let go of several drug dealers who had been caught.
Immediately after the incident, Fira reported it to the Bogotá Public Prosecutor's Office and asked the authorities to send someone to investigate the matter. As a result, the prosecutor's office has not yet investigated the matter, and Fira has been transferred out of the drug checkpoint.
In 1987, Fira continued to report to the newly appointed Attorney General of Colombia, Oyos, the director of the drug checkpoint in Bogotá and his subordinates the collusion with the Medellín drug cartel. As soon as Oyos received Fira's report, he sent an investigation team to investigate the head of the drug checkpoint in the city of Bogotá and his subordinates.
Before the matter could be resolved, Lieutenant Colonel Ferra was fired and sent to an insane asylum. The official who fired Fira claimed that Feira had been severely mentally ill for many years, that he was a paranoid patient, and that he was not only unfit for anti-narcotics work, but also had to be examined in a psychiatric hospital.
When the investigation team discovered the situation, it immediately reported it to Attorney General Oyos, believing that there was an ulterior conspiracy.
When Oyos received the news, he was furious and immediately sent his lieutenant Yus to the asylum to find Fira and make sure to free him from the asylum.
When Yuz and a few people drove to the insane asylum on the western outskirts of Bogotá, they met a real psychopath. I saw that Ferra's face was dirty, his face was yellow and black, and there was a desperate fear in his stupid eyes. As soon as someone called him, he trembled, fell on his knees and raised his hands and begged for mercy, and said again and again:
"No...... No...... I didn't see anything...... That woman is so beautiful...... The tits are so big, hee-hee......"
Adjutant Yusi was very sad to see that the handsome and dashing lieutenant colonel police officer in the past had become like this in less than a month. When he saw that Fira often said the phrase "I didn't see anything", he knew that someone must have frightened and tortured him excessively, and really made him insane.
He immediately said to the director of the asylum:
"I order you, in the name of the Attorney General, to immediately put Officer Fira in quarantine and meticulous care. He should not be allowed to see anyone but you and your doctor during your care. Let his emotions be stabilized within a week. I'll come back to see him next Monday. ”
Three days later, Adjutant Yuss received a call from the director of the asylum. The superintendent told him on the phone that Officer Ferra had been poisoned in his hospital cell the previous night.
As soon as Yuss put down the phone, he immediately reported to Attorney General Oyos.
Oyos knew that this was a complete murderous conspiracy by the drug cartel.
The death of Fira made the attorney general realize that Colombia is terminally ill, and the black hand of the drug cartel has reached into every area of the country, and their ghosts can be glimpsed everywhere. He decided to put his personal life and death aside, and used Fira's death as a gap to conduct a thorough investigation to find out who was behind it.
Therefore, he immediately ordered that the head of the checkpoint, the security personnel of the station chief, and the colleagues who had been transferred to the new department reported by Ferra before his death be all listed as objects of suspicion and interrogated, and the matter must be clarified.
This order of Oyos was strongly supported by President Balko. Within 24 hours of Oyos's order, all the suspects involved were apprehended and detained in the detention center of the Anti-Narcotics Police in Bogotá. Oyos immediately ordered the police to interrogate the men overnight.
The results of the interrogation surprised Oyos and the others. It turned out that the head of the drug checkpoint in Bogotá was a small leader of the Medellín drug cartel that broke into the national anti-drug agency, and he was directly under the command of Ochoa, the second leader of the Medellín drug cartel. In the days when he broke into the anti-narcotics agency, he released more than 20 drug traffickers and released nearly 50 tons of cocaine from the city of Bogotá and sold abroad.
The head of the drug checkpoint in Bogotá was immediately announced arrested. He was arrested along with five of his cronies. After the arrest of the station chief, Oyos issued a new order: to immediately arrest Ochoa, the second leader of the Medellín drug cartel.
Ochoa's position in the Medellín drug cartel is second only to Escobar, the number one leader. However, because he knew this at an early age, engaged in drug smuggling and trafficking, and was once the "boss" of Escobar, he was no less important in the Medellín drug cartel than Escobar. It's just that he is generally not directly involved in the drug trade, and most of the time he is in the upper echelons of the head of state in Bogotá, mainly to carry out liaison and bribery activities, and at the same time, he also advises Escobar, co-planning larger drug trafficking operations, and acts as Escobar's "military advisor".
Therefore, his division of labor with the third leader, Rydell, is to direct the smuggling and assassination, and Ochoa to carry out the planning and diplomatic offensive, and jointly assist Escobar, thus forming a three-legged pattern to jointly support the "world" of the Medellín drug cartels.
Ochoa's own fortune reached more than $2 billion at this time, and in 1985 he was listed as one of the top 20 richest people in the world by Forbes magazine.