The Venezuelan president is wanted for his alleged links to narco-terrorism, according to the DEA, which is also going after the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel.
The reward offered by the United States Department of State for anyone who delivers information that helps capture former Bolivian anti-drug chief Maximiliano Dávila joins a list that includes Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and "El Mayo" Zambada, leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. All three have in common their ties to drug trafficking, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
Maduro is accused by the anti-drug agency and the US government of being part of the drug-terrorist network called the Cartel de los Soles.
The investigations show that this cartel was dedicated to sending drugs from 1999 to the United States. It is presumed that Maduro is the leader of the organization in which Maikel Moreno, Vladimir Padrino López, Diosdado Cabello, Hugo Carvajal and Clivez Alcala also participate, reported El Tiempo.
The Venezuelan president offers a 15 million dollar reward for anyone who delivers information that helps his capture; for the other names up to 10 million are offered.
The Sinaloa Cartel
In September of last year, the State Department's Narcotics Rewards Program (NRP) tripled the payment for anyone who provides information that helps locate Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, leader of the Sinaloa Cartel.
The economic compensation for the informant began with the amount currently offered by the Bolivian Dávila: five million dollars, a figure that by the end of 2021 tripled to 15 million US dollars.
This is the second largest reward offered so far by the US administration to find a drug trafficker, according to the Los Angeles Times.
First of all, there are the 20 million dollars that the NRP offers if an informant provides data for the capture of the Mexican Rafael Caro Quintero, "El Narco de Narcos" or "The number 1", the most wanted drug trafficker by the United States Justice .
Five million for "El Macho"
The State Department made official on Tuesday a reward of five million dollars for whoever delivers information that leads to the conviction in a New York court of Bolivian Colonel Maximiliano Dávila, alias "El Macho", linked to a criminal organization that trafficked drugs and weapons, between July 2019 and September 2020.
Dávila is the former director of the Special Force to Fight Drug Trafficking or Felcn. During his period in office as director of the Felcn, Dávila is believed to have used his position to protect aircraft used to transport cocaine through third countries for distribution. in the US In addition, both before and during the performance of his duties as director of the Felcn, Dávila was allegedly involved in drug trafficking and money laundering activities”, details the press release published yesterday by the State Department.
A DEA investigation determined that Dávila offered airports and protection to an organization that transported drugs from Bolivia to the United States. There are recordings of the meetings that the former anti-drug chief held with drug traffickers.
For this fact, the Court of the Southern District of New York opened a process against those involved and set a millionaire reward for whoever gives information that leads to his conviction.
The website of the Department of State details that the NRP rewards program made it possible for at least 75 "transnational criminals" to be captured and brought to justice in the United States, with the disbursement of rewards that exceed 135 million dollars.
"More than 75 major transnational criminals and drug traffickers have been brought to justice under the NRP and the Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program (Tocrp) since the NRP's inception in 1986. The Department has paid out more than $135 million in rewards for information that led to arrests," details the State Department.
The NRP had on its list of criminals with "reward value" criminals such as Joaquín "Chapo" Guzmán, for whom a reward of five million dollars was set to be delivered to the informant who helps locate him.
Also on the NRP payroll was former Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, who was killed by US forces in Pakistan in 2011.
