Deputy Attorney Elka Venegas Ahumada launched seminar “Extinción del derecho de dominio e investigaciones económico financieras”* which will be carried out with support of the United States Embassy in Colombia and the Drug Enforcement Administration DEA.
The purpose of this academic event is to train prosecutors and judicial police members from the Office of the Attorney General in implementing the Colombian context in effective investigation methods for the fight against drug criminality.
As Deputy Attorney explained, this is a phenomenon which involves many criminal behaviors such as money laundering, criminal conspiracy, drug trafficking, illegal mining and corruption and therefore, the Office of the Attorney General must be prepared to tackle all challenges posed by the existence of new forms organized crime through “prosecution of perpetrators and individuals involved in all this criminal network and through this kind of training and interlocutions, interchange and judicial cooperation with multilateral institutions as the best tool to fulfill our responsibilities”.
*Seizure of assets and economic and financial investigations