FBI Affidavit: Mario Fabricio Ormachea Aliaga

Mario Fabricio Ormachea Aliaga: According to an FBI affidavit filed in federal court, Mario Fabricio Ormachea Aliaga, 42, flew from La Paz, Bolivia to Miami on Aug. 29 to meet with Humberto Roca, who formerly ran Bolivia's AeroSur airline, according to Times Colonist. Before the meeting with Ormachea Aliaga whom Roca referred to as the "Colonel" Roca contacted the FBI on the advice of a lawyer. Agents monitored and recorded their meetings, during which Ormachea Aliaga the No. 2 official in the national police's anticorruption unit allegedly told Roca that in exchange for $30,000 "he would drop the charges against Roca and charge someone else instead," according to the FBI affidavit and FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A high-ranking Bolivian National Police official was sitting in a Florida jail Thursday on U.S. charges that he tried to extort thousands of dollars from the former owner of a Bolivian airline. Roca previously had fled to the U.S. to avoid Bolivian charges alleging he provided tickets to what authorities there called anti-government foreign mercenaries. The FBI affidavit said that Roca calls the charges politically motivated and is seeking asylum in the U.S. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.