Not only are the Chars, the Gnecco, Name and Daes were also linked to drug trafficking in the nineties

The League Against Silence learned about various documents that linked important figures of Caribbean politics, with the so-called Cartel de la Costa headed by Alberto Orlande Gamboa, alias 'El Caracol', the results of this investigation continue to yield important names of businessmen and politicians from this region, where the Daes, Gnecco and Name stand out, in this case, these characters would have been involved in activities related to money laundering, drug trafficking and front lines.

In the 1990s, Álvaro Vivas Botero, director of the CTI section in the Atlantic capital, produced an illustrative painting that was presented to Carlos Solórzano Garavito, director in charge of the CTI at the time. Both the illustrative table and various documents depict a cartography of the best-known drug traffickers on the coast and the criminal interests that they had in interfering in other areas of the country.

Among the document presented by Vivas, important names such as Habib Char Abdala, who is Fuad Char's brother and uncle of former presidential candidate Alejandro Char, José Name Terán, Julio Nasser David, a major drug trafficker from this region, the murdered Angel Guillermo León Sánchez and Orlando Victor Daccarett Daes, according to file 114 found in the investigation, the above-mentioned families would have used the proceeds of drug trafficking to create different shops, acquire real estate and vehicles, and likewise, to promote different political careers and even pay bribes.

José Name created, at the time, a whole chiefdom on the Atlantic coast from his political influence, since many point out that he had placed both mayors and governors through the purchase of votes, however, according to a lawyer consulted by the League Against Silence, he pointed out that a check on this subject is never it is important to note that the Name lineage has predominated both in regional and national politics with the arrival in the Senate of the Republic since 1978 with José Name, then José David Name, the arrival of the current Senator Iván Leonidas Name Vásquez, and the particular case of David Name Orozco, the vice-presidential formula of Alejandro Ordóñez on his way to the 2018 elections.

The Gneccos have also been mentioned in this report for their position in the politics of La Guajira, Cesar and Magdalena, their trajectory has been distinguished throughout the country by their presence in the governorate of the department of Cesar, since Lucas Gnecco has twice been governor of this department and was singled out for the crimes of celebration of contracts without compliance with legal requirements, prevarication, constraint to the voter and embezzlement by appropriation, paying today, house imprisonment.

In the past, the Gnecco brothers were linked to the expansion of paramilitarism in the departments of Cesar and Magdalena, since they allegedly financed and supported the arrival of the troops of the brothers Castaño and Salvatore Mancuso, who, with the questionable passivity of the Army and the Police, had carried out different criminal activities in this region of the north of the country, in addition to this being that Jorge Gnecco was killed in 2001, allegedly by former paramilitaries under 'Jorge 40', Vicente Castaño and Salvatore Mancuso, in connection with an alleged reckoning.

In the case of the Daes, Orlando Vivas Daccarett's painting exposes them as an important network of drug traffickers from the early 1990s, since both Jose and Christian Daes were singled out by the court of the Southern District of Florida in 1993, for cocaine trafficking and money laundering, in the case of José Daes, it is known that he carried out a in agreement with the courts of the United States and was also charged in Colombia by various checks that would have been written to him from the Cali Cartel, however, he was charged with this matter.

The case of Christian Daes was culminated by the United States justice system on February 21, 2001, however, by the end of 2021, various rumors of false revenues, fictitious sales and hidden information about trade agreements, caused a 44% drop in the value of each Tecnoglass share on the New York Stock Exchange. This family is configured as one of the most powerful in Barranquilla, and even apparently supports the image of Clan Char in the region.

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