The return of the notorious drug trafficker Fabio Ochoa to Colombia, following his deportation from the United States, has reopened old wounds among the victims of the Medellin cartel, with some expressing their dismay at the decision of Colombian authorities to let the former mafia boss walk free.

The former drug trafficker was captured in October 1999 and extradited to the United States in 2001. Fabio Ochoa Vásquez, one of the founders of the Medellin Cartel and associate of Pablo Escobar, has arrived in Colombia deported after serving 26 years of drug trafficking sentence in the United States as reported by Migration Colombia.

Fabio Ochoa Vasquez, 67, founder of the Medellin cartel, returns to Colombia after 20 years in US prison. Deported by the US, Ochoa landed in Bogota on Monday, cleared by Colombian authorities to reunite with family.

Fabio Ochoa Vásquez, founder of the Medellín Cartel, is deported to Colombia after serving over 20 years in a US prison for drug-trafficking.

One of Colombia’s legendary drug lords and a key operator of the Medellin cartel has been deported back to the South American country, after serving 25 years of a 30-year prison sentence in the United States.