The Attorney General’s Office, through the Specialized Directorate for Extinction of Property Rights, led an offensive against the assets of several members of structures dedicated to transnational drug trafficking.
In this sense, the entity points out, precautionary measures of suspension of dispositive power, embargo and seizure were imposed on 149 assets located in Bogotá; Pradera and Cali (Valle del Cauca); Barranquilla (Atlántico); ParateBueno (Cundinamarca); Monterrey (Casanare); San José del Guaviare (Guaviare); and Bucaramanga, Girón, Piedecuesta, San Gil and Cabrera (Santander).
The affected properties exceed the value of 12,250 million pesos; and they are represented in 21 rural properties, 22 urban properties, 22 vehicles, 3 commercial establishments, 1 company and 80 livestock.
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Some of the assets would belong to Diego Alberto Varona Aragón, who was part of the extinct ‘Cali Cartel’, and in the nineties he was considered one of the main partners of Juan Carlos Rodríguez Abadía, alias Chupeta, and José Ignacio Cardona, aka Nicki.
There are also assets in the names of relatives and people close to Héctor Fabio García Bengoechea, alias La Gatia; Miguel Villareal Archila, alias Salomón; and Manuel Enrique Torregrosa Castro, alias Chang, captured for extradition purposes in July 2007, on charges related to drug trafficking.
During the course of the investigation, it was proven that the owners of the properties did not have the economic power nor did they register a stable economic activity that would allow them to support the acquisition of properties valued at 6,250 million pesos. The evidence shows that they were purchased with money from shipping tons of cocaine to the United States.
Finally, the finances of Carlos Yesid Gómez, Luis Marino Medina Martínez, Jefferson Adolfo Segura Alfonso, Erick Leandro Calderón Soler and Omaira Ospina Ramírez, designated members of a drug trafficking network attributed to the transportation of shipments of narcotics from Cauca, were impacted. to the coasts of Magdalena, where their departure by sea to the United States was coordinated.
With the resources obtained from this illegal activity, the criminal organization would have acquired 14 vehicles, 21 properties, 40 livestock and established a company to try to justify their illicit origin.
The occupation procedures were carried out in an articulated manner by the CTI of the Prosecutor’s Office, the National Police and the National Army, in compliance with the ‘Argenta’ strategy, arranged by the Attorney General of the Nation, Francisco Barbosa Delgado, to hit the heritage of organized crime, drug trafficking and delinquency.
The Special Assets Company (SAE) will assume the administration of the affected assets for the purposes of asset forfeiture.
Source: Attorney General’s Office
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