An indictment against Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida revealed that he worked with Jorge Milton Cifuentes Villa "El Colombiano", imprisoned in the United States for sending tons of cocaine from South America.
The indictment No. 07-20508-cr mentions "El Chapo" along with “Dolly” de Cifuentes Villa, Hildebrando Alexander Cifuentes Villa and Otto Javier García Girón.
The three of them belong to the "Cifuentes Villa clan," closely linked to the Cartel del Norte del Valle, the United Self-defense Forces of Colombia (AUC for its Spanish acronym), the Sinaloa cartel and organized crime in Colombia.
Jorge Milton Cifuentes Villa was captured in Venezuela in 2012 and deported to Colombia. In December 2013 he was extradited to the United States.
Jorge, who posed as a successful entrepreneur in Mexico, Panama and Ecuador, assumed the leadership of the criminal organization led by his brother Francisco after he was killed in 2007 on a farm in Colombia. According to the Colombian police Francisco had worked as a pilot for Pablo Escobar Gaviria, leader of the famous Medellín cartel.
On September 21, 2011 the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Treasury said that “Jorge Milton Cifuentes Villa leads a drug trafficking and money laundering organization closely allied with Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera. Along with more than 70 individuals and entities, Jorge Milton Cifuentes Villa was designated as a Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficker (SDNT) in February 2011. Guzmán Loera and Jorge Milton Cifuentes Villa were indicted on drug trafficking and/or money laundering charges in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in November 2010. In February 2011, Jorge Milton Cifuentes Villa was also indicted on drug trafficking charges in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
In a press release dated August 2012 the FBI said that “from October 2008 through February 2011, Dolly Cifuentes-Villa conspired with others, including her brother and co-defendant, Jorge Milton Cifuentes-Villa, to import ton-quantities of cocaine into the United States from Colombia, through countries including Mexico. In October 2009, 8.3 tons of cocaine that Dolly Cifuentes-Villa and Jorge Milton Cifuentes-Villa were attempting to send to Mexico were seized in Ecuador.”
"Dolly" de Jesús was extradited to the United States in 2012, while Hildebrando was arrested last year in Culiacán, Mexico, where according to authorities he was working for the Sinaloa Cartel. He is expected to be extradited to the United States.