According to one of his defenders.

In a letter obtained by the media and confirmed by the drug trafficker’s defense agents, Dairo Antonio Osugu, better known as Otonel, ordered the members of the Clan del Golfo gang, which he led before his arrest in October, to cease their activities. against the Colombian security forces.”

Since the beginning of the year, armed groups have killed 36 police officers as a result of their acts of violence in the country.

Authorities have indicated that the Clan del Golfo gang is responsible for 18 murders it may have carried out to prove its strength ahead of possible negotiations with new left-wing President Gustavo Petro, who takes office on Sunday.

The gang, formed by the remnants of far-right paramilitaries and numbering some 3,000 militants and their associates, is offering $1,000 to $5,000 in exchange for killing a police officer or soldier.

O’Donnell asked his gang to stop “armed strikes causing harm to the civilian population”.

In May last year, the gang launched a forceful strike in the north of the country, paralyzing hundreds of cities and killing eight civilians.

O’Donnell, who pleaded not guilty in a Brooklyn U.S. court to charges of criminal activity and international production and export of cocaine, called on “the new government to make a peace deal with him.”