Colombian drug icon Fabio Ochoa Vázques returned to Colombia after his release from the prison in the US, last Tuesday.
The former senior icon in the notorious Medellín Cartel was released after serving 25 years in prison.
Ochoa and his older brothers worked in trafficking cocaine from Colombia to the US in the late 1970s and 1980s.
Ochoa Vázques was first arrested in Colombia in 1990. He was one of Colombia’s richest men was on Forbes magazine’s rich list for six years from 1987 to 1992.
Fabio with his brothers controlled a big part of the international network of cocaine production and trafficking.
He was sentenced to 30 years in prison but served 25.
The profits of the Ochoa's trade in drugs were not recovered by authorities.
Richard Gregorie, who was part of the US legal team that prosecuted Ochoa, told the Associated Press: “He won’t be retiring a poor man, that’s for sure."
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