Colombia's police director says the son of notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar was directly involved in cartel business, even killings, rejecting the denials of a man whose reappearance is creating a sensation in Colombia 16 years after his father's death.
The accusations that Gen. Oscar Naranjo made in an interview with The Associated Press Tuesday were bolstered by the assertions of a former cartel lieutenant, who says the younger Escobar accompanied his father on a police captain's killing and took drug money.
The former Juan Pablo Escobar, 32, is using the newly released film "Sins of My Father" to apologize to the sons of two politicians the arch criminal ordered assassinated during nearly a decade of terrorizing Colombia.
The son denied any involvement in his father's criminal affairs in a Nov. 5 interview with The Associated Press, and also said he did not inherit his father's multibillion-dollar fortune.
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