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DIFFERENT ANGLE by Kenneth Rijock
Financial Crime Consultant, for World-Check
OFAC designates Colombian narcotraffickers as SDNT
30 August 2007

The Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, has named six Colombian nationals as Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers (SDNT), together with three corporate entities controlled by these individuals. Readers familiar with the global war on drugs may recognise the first two as " Los Mellizos," or The Twins; they are wanted on narcotics charges in the District of Columbia.

The individuals named are:

  • Miguel Angel Melchor Mejia Munera [UID 210721] .
  • Victor Manuel Mejia Munera  [UID 210722] 
  • Daniel Alberto Mora Ricardo [UID 697107]
  • Mary Luz Nova Carvajal [UID 697109]
  • Ramiro Vanoy Murillo [UID 179327]
  • Francisco Javier Zuluaga Lindo [UID 241977]   

Vanoy and Zuluaga are in custody in Colombia, awaiting extradition to the US. They are wanted in the Southern District of Florida, on narcotics charges.

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