Franklin Jurado was a Colombian banker who ran the money laundering operations for the Cali cartel till his death in 1994.
Jurado earned two degrees at Harvard University, where he met his future wife Christina. After his return to Colombia, he served as a director at the First InterAmericas Bank, which was owned by Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, the leader of the Cali cartel. Later, he began money laundering for José Santacruz Londoño, before being promoted to handle the entire money laundering operation for the cartel. Jurado spoke five languages, and used his wife's American passport to form limited partnerships and shell companies across the Caribbean and Europe to aid the cartel's sophisticated money laundering operation.
Jurado ran one of the worlds most complex money laundering processes for the Cali cartel, which was virtually undetected for many years. However, a computer glitch in a Monaco-based bank eventually gave away Jurado's money laundering process.
After gathering sufficient evidence, the United States issued an arrest warrant for Franklin. DEA agent Javier Peña tracked and arrested Franklin in Curaçao. Jurado was extradited to Miami where cartel lawyer Alan Starkman represented him. Under Starkman's advice, Jurado refused to collaborate unless he got to talk to his wife, who at that point was kidnapped by the Cali cartel and handed over to the FARC rebels. Peña rescued Christina from the FARC using the help of Diego Murillo Bejarano and the Castaño brothers. However, before Christina could be brought to America; the cartel killed Franklin inside the prison.