Biography
Bernardo Valdes Londono was caught in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement sting along with nine other co-defendants. Valades offered to provide a fake U.S. visa from a contact in the Colombian federal government and to use his connections at the state comptroller’s office and a district attorney’s office to register an undercover informant, posing as a FARC agent, at the International Red Cross. He presented the informant with a fake Spanish passport, introduced him to someone who could transport bulk quantities of drugs, and provided fake Panamanian immigration stamps.
Case characteristics: FBI sting operation, FBI confidential informant. Organization referenced in charging documents: FARC.
Case data and description from The Intercept's Trial and Terror project (Trevor Aaronson and Margot Williams), licensed CC BY-NC. Source: https://github.com/theintercept/trial-and-terror-data
