Henao montoya

United States Attorney Southern District of New York
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MAY 12, 2005 CONTACT: U.S. ATTORNEY’S OFFICE HERBERT HADAD, MEGAN GAFFNEY PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE (212) 637-2600 FBIJAMES MARGOLIN (212) 384-2720

COLOMBIAN DRUG KINGPIN SENTENCED TO 235 MONTHS’ IMPRISONMENT AND FORFEITURE OF $25 MILLION FOR SENDING TONS OF COCAINE INTO NEW YORK CITY
DAVID N. KELLEY, the UnitedStates Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that FERNANDO HENAOMONTOYA, the supervisor of a Colombian narcotics-trafficking organization responsible for sending tons of cocaine fromColombia to New York City, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 235 months’ imprisonment and the forfeiture of $25 million in narcotics proceeds. According to the Indictment, theGovernment’s recitation of the evidence at the guilty plea proceedings, and other court papers filed by the Government, FERNANDO HENAOMONTOYA is the younger brother of ORLANDO HENAO-MONTOYA, now deceased, andARCHANGEL HENAO-MONTOYA, two notorious bosses of Colombian narcotics-trafficking organizations responsible for the importation of thousands of kilograms of cocaine from South

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America into theUnited States during the 1990s.

By 1993 or

1994, FERNANDO HENAO-MONTOYA himself became directly involved in the family business of importation and distribution of tonquantity cocaine loads intoand within the United States. charge for which FERNANDO HENAO-MONTOYA was sentenced today involved a load of approximately 5,000 kilograms of cocaine sent from Colombia to New York City in late 1998or early 1999. After The

the cocaine was distributed, FERNANDO HENAO-MONTOYA instructed a trusted lieutenant of his organization to travel to Mexico and then to New York to supervise the collectionof his $25 million share of the proceeds from the 5,000-kilogram cocaine load, according to the Government. FERNANDO HENAO-MONTOYA’s lieutenant

carried out the order - collecting millions of...