India, Sept. 28 -- Colombian police on Sunday said they captured the wife and daughter of a notorious Ecuadorian gang leader who was extradited to the US last year on drug trafficking charges.

Police said the two women, who are wanted in Ecuador for money laundering, were arrested in Sabana de Torres, a small town in northeastern Colombia, in an operation backed by the FBI and Ecuadorian authorities.

"Colombia will not be a safe haven for the finances of transnational criminal groups," Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella said in a message posted on X on Sunday. "I will send these (women) with pleasure to my friend President Daniel Noboa, so that they face Ecuadorian justice."

Jose Adolfo Macias Villamar, whose nickname is "Fit...