Bogota Colombia.

The Colombian government extradited this Friday to the United States Elkin Javier López Torres, alias 'Doble Rueda', a drug trafficker requested by a court in that country for crimes related to cocaine trafficking. Justice Minister Wilson Ruiz said in a statement that Lopez was extradited "to face the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas on charges of conspiracy to import cocaine" into the United States.

You can read: Robbery in a huge mansion of the emir of CatarLópez Torres, also known as 'La Silla' because he moves in a wheelchair due to a disability, he surrendered in December 2019 to the Colombian authorities after he presented an insufficiency kidney, for which he was admitted to the La Asunción clinic, in Barranquilla, capital of the department of Atlántico (north).

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In addition: Hurricane Linda strengthens and threatens the coasts of Mexico The investigations indicate that 'La Silla' is allegedly part of a drug trafficking organization and is 'responsible for coordinating the transport of drug shipments from Colombia to different countries in the world '. Ruiz added that, according to the file, López also "charged fees to other cartels for the use of drug export routes." According to figures from the Ministry of Justice, last year Colombia extradited 114 people, including Colombians and foreigners, to different countries around the world.

PHOTOS: The anti-vaccine family that died in less than a weekFrom August 7, 2018 to November 30, 2020, 379 people were extradited, 280 of them to the United States, 40 to Spain, 13 to Argentina, 10 to Brazil and Ecuador , among other countries. Of these extradited, 326 are Colombians.