Damaso Ruiz Carrion is a notary who helped several prominent Romanian fugitives get their papers in order in Costa Rica.
Reporters for OCCRP and its partner organization, Semanario Universidad, found that he also rendered services to a high-level Colombian drug trafficker who married a Costa Rican and got Costa Rican citizenship.
Colombian navy sailors in a patrol boat, left, and Sailors and Coast Guardsmen from the littoral combat ship USS Freedom search for illicit drugs dumped overboard by the crew of a high-speed "go-fast" vessel. (Photo: US Navy)