After the murder in January of convicted Colombian drug lord, Leonidas Vargas, Spanish officials have just recently arrested four suspects. The suspects identity, three Colombians and one Romanian, was not released - along with the location of their arrest in order to keep anonymity with the department. Vargas, who was 60, was shot in his hospital bed, just a week after being transferred for treatment, at Doce de Octubre Hospital in Madrid. Although Spanish officials have declined to say what the motive was for the murder, it is said, according to an article, that it is a "settling of scores". Two days after Vargas' murder, his brother Fabio along with another were both found dead in Columbia. Vargas' past consists of an arrest for over 500 kilos of cocaine in July 2006 which landed him with a sentencing of 19 years in jail. He also had a business past with drug lords such as deceased Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha and Pablo Escobar - killed in a 1993 police shootout.
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