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Colombian designer Nancy Teresa Gonzalez travel this wednesday jail in florida After Southern District Court request his extradition Conspiratorial offenses and wildlife trafficking. Gonzalez was detained since last July 2022 after it was discovered that she used to make clothes from skins Exotic animals like stifles, crocodiles and snakes.
In March this year, through Resolution 046 of 2023, President Gustavo Petro supported the extradition of the designer. The entire process of getting Nancy to the United States will be coordinated at the Police Anti-Narcotics Base in Catum. That decision was finalized barely a month after the Supreme Court gave its favorable opinion to send Gonzalez to American cells.
According to the prosecution’s investigation, Gonzalez approached the citizens of Valle del Cauca to travel to the United States with his design in exchange for paying $600 for a ticket and his upkeep., According to US justice, the shipment would have been made illegally, bypassing health officials’ protocols and international regulations on endangered species of wildlife.
they were also caught when they were caught Diego Mauricio Rodríguez Giraldo, who would be a trusted employee of the owner of the aforementioned company, and John Camilo Aguilar Jaramillo, were accused of commercial maneuvers. Gonzalez spent her days in El Buen Pastor prison and will now be transferred to the United States where she can defend herself.
Nancy has always insisted on her innocence as she assures that she has never used a skin of illegal origin. That it met all requirements in the United States of America when its goods entered the premises at New York.
Thus was born his empire
In 1998, Gonzalez debuted in the United States with the company that bears his name and which he co-founded with his son, Santiago Barberi Gonzalez, who died in 2017 under strange circumstances. 24 years later, this economistIn the most exclusive fashion counters in the world it has managed to place its products side by side with other famous brands such as Louis Vuitton, Chanel or Hermès.
How do I do it? Before venturing into the international market, Gonzalez created a company in Cali in the 1980s that he called Encueros, where he sold calfskin leather belts, and later experimented with crocodile skin. The company received such a good response that it opened nine stores in Bogotá, Cartagena and Barranquilla. Such was the demand and success that they took their international window to New York to promote their products.
Celebrities are known to love it Britney Spears, Adriana Lima, Victoria Beckham, Salma Hayek and Eva Longoria They have disappeared luxurious and exclusive handbags and handbags, which were sold by the famous Colombian designer in boutiques in New York, Paris, Seoul and Tokyo, at prices ranging from 700 to 25,000 dollars. But they were unaware that these were goods that had been illegally and secretly produced and taken out of Colombia.