MIAMI, (Reuters) – U.S. authorities indicted six  associates of Colombia’s Cali drug cartel yesterday on  charges they failed to disclose the assets of two jailed  kingpins as set out in a sentencing agreement.

The U.S. Department of Justice said the defendants were  charged with conspiring to impede an investigation into assets  owned by brothers Miguel and Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela,  sentenced in Miami in 2006 to 30 years in prison on trafficking  charges.

The defendants, all relatives of the brothers, were also  charged with making false statements.

In return for an agreement to forfeit $2.1 billion in  illegal profits, the U.S. government had agreed not to charge  six of the brothers’ relatives with money laundering and  obstructing justice.

The government also agreed to lift financial sanctions  against 28 family members if they forfeited tainted assets,  including bank accounts, businesses and luxury homes.