Nicaragua suspends two senior police officers for links to drug cartels

Two senior Nicaraguan police officers were suspended from their duties on Tuesday, following allegations of corruption and links to international drug trafficking, the country's National Police director, Aminta Granera, told the media.

Commissioner Oscar Larrave and his deputy Santiago Saballos have been investigated for corruption when Larrave was the head of anti-trafficking operations in the Atlantico Sur Autonomous Region.

Larrave has also been implicated as a co-conspirator of Delvis Jiron -- a former police officer convicted for abetting the killing of four colleagues on May 4, 2004, in the regional capital Bluefields. Colombian hit men murdered the four officers in apparent revenge for their anti-trafficking work.

Nicaragua's Interior Ministry had asked for the extension of investigations into the two senior officers, but the conclusion of these investigations have not yet been published.

Source: Xinhua