Plea deal leaves family of Colombian drug capos immune from prosecution

As part of a plea bargain with U.S. prosecutors Gilberto and Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela (image)- once responsible for over 80% of the cocaine entering the U.S.- will each spend 30 years in jail and will give up their business assets in Colombia which total over $2 billion. Though U.S. attorney general Alberto Gonzales considered the agreement as the end of the Cali drug cartel, the plea bargain allows family of the Rodriguez Orejuela brothers to be both immune from prosecution and to keep assets supposedly untainted from drug profits.

Links- news24.com (U.K.), ndtv.com (India), Sydney Morning Herald, Bloomberg (U.S.)

Image- BBC News

Tags- Colombia, drugs, law