Víctor Carranza
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Víctor Carranza, born in 1940 in Guateque
, Boyacá
, Colombia
is a Colombian emerald
czar. He is the owner of emerald mines in the Boyacá mountains (a forested area not far from Bogotá
). The economy of the area around the mines is dependent on him. Before his arrest he was considered to be the man in charge of this drug plant growing area.
On 25th of February, 1998 he was arrested in Bogotá
. In 2002 he was released from prison.
Guateque
Guateque is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the subregion of the Eastern Boyacá Province.-Famous people from Guateque:* Former President of Colombia Enrique Olaya Herrera....
, Boyacá
Boyacá Department
Boyacá is one of the 32 Departments of Colombia, and the remnant of one of the original nine states of the "United States of Colombia".Boyacá is centrally located within Colombia, almost entirely within the mountains of the Eastern Cordillera to the border with Venezuela, although the western end...
, Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
is a Colombian emerald
Emerald
Emerald is a variety of the mineral beryl colored green by trace amounts of chromium and sometimes vanadium. Beryl has a hardness of 7.5–8 on the 10 point Mohs scale of mineral hardness...
czar. He is the owner of emerald mines in the Boyacá mountains (a forested area not far from Bogotá
Bogotá
Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district...
). The economy of the area around the mines is dependent on him. Before his arrest he was considered to be the man in charge of this drug plant growing area.
On 25th of February, 1998 he was arrested in Bogotá
Bogotá
Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district...
. In 2002 he was released from prison.