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
The original Southern District of Florida indictment in case 06-20001-CR-Lenard/Klein bears a January 3, 2006 filing stamp and names this defendant among ten accused in the Salamanca investigation. Its descriptions of the 2005 undercover operation are charging allegations. The indictment itself does not establish an arrest, extradition, prison admission or release date; the date embedded in the downloaded filename is not the filing date. Source: https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/criminal-hrsp/legacy/2010/07/29/01-27-06foreign-nationals-indict.pdf#page=1
