Pablo Escobar’s partner is deported from the US to Colombia after 20 years

At that time, Escobar, the most wanted drug kingpin on the planet, had already been killed by Colombian police in 1993.

Fabio is the youngest of the powerful “Ochoa clan”, formed by a millionaire cattle rancher and his three sons, allies of “El Patrón”, as Escobar was known, in drug trafficking to North America and in his bloody war against the State in the 1990s.

Of the founders of what became the largest drug trafficking organization in the world, only he and Carlos Lehder were extradited to the United States. “Rambo”, as Lehder was known, was released in 2020 and traveled to Germany due to his dual nationality.

Ochoa surrendered to Colombian justice in 1990, in accordance with a special law issued by the government of then president César Gaviria (1990-94), which provided for reduced sentences and the non-extradition of criminals who surrendered, confessed their crimes and reported their accomplices. .

He was released in 1996 after serving almost six years in the Itagüí maximum security prison, near Medellín, where he is from.

However, he returned to trafficking and was arrested again in October 1999 as part of the multinational “Operation Millennium”, which led to the arrest of dozens of alleged drug lords.