WASHINGTON (AP) — A Colombian paramilitary leader is being sentenced to 16 years in prison for drug trafficking by a federal judge in Washington.
Rodrigo Tovar, better known by his alias Jorge 40, was one of more than a dozen right-wing leaders extradited to the U.S. in 2008 after then-President Alvaro Uribe accused them of breaking the terms of an earlier peace deal.
Unlike the other warlords, Tovar refused to negotiate and instead fought the drug charges. While he admitted to imposing a war tax on cocaine moving through the Caribbean countryside he once lorded over he said he wasn’t personally involved in the trade and attributed any wrongdoing to Colombia’s conflict.
With time served and good conduct, federal Judge Reggie B. Walton said Tovar could be released in under five years.
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