Former Colombian footballer Diego Leon Osorio was arrested for the third time on April 8 in a drug trafficking case, Colombian police said on Friday.
The defender who won several titles with Atletico Nacional, “claimed to be on a flight to Madrid” from Rionegro (north-west), a town near Medellín, “with 1.849 grams of cocaine“, said the police in a press release.
At the airport, the authorities arrested him and discovered that he was carrying the drugs hidden in four sneakers.
The police did not formalize his arrest until Friday, after the release to the press of a video in which Osario appears handcuffed next to a police officer.
The 52-year-old former footballer had already been arrested in 2002 while carrying cocaine in Miami.
He had been released after posting bail, but in 2019 he was arrested again in Medellin and placed under house arrest for five years.
This is not the first time that a footballer from the country that produces the most cocaine in the world finds himself in the net of justice for drug trafficking.
In 2021, former Colombian football star Anthony de Avila was arrested for drug trafficking in the Italian city of Naples.
The previous year, John Viafara, champion of the Libertadores de Caldas, was extradited to the United States for having participated in a shipment of drugs to that country.
Luis Alfonso “BlessedFajardo and Wilson Pérez also faced similar legal troubles.
With AFP
2023-05-06 09:00:50
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