The properties located in 6 departments and valued at more than 34 billion pesos were allegedly acquired with resources derived from drug trafficking.
As part of the actions to fight against the illegal resources and economies that nurture criminal structures, the Office of the Attorney General through the Special Directorate on Assets Forfeiture and the cooperation of the Anti-drugs Directorate (Dirección de la Policía Antinarcóticos (Dirán)), carried out an operation between September 8th and 11th to seize properties of three alleged members of the Organized Criminal Group La Oficina.
These properties were identified as part of the illicit patrimony allegedly set up by Carlos Alberto Salazar Lotero, alias Eliécer; Frank Hernán Álvarez Espinal, alias Tarzán; and Rubén Darío Torres León, alias Peli or Max Cross, people wanted with a view to extradition by different Courts of the United States for drug trafficking offenses.
The Attorney General’s Office imposed precautionary actions such as suspension of power to alienate a property and a seizure process on 555 assets, among them: 40 urban properties, 12 rural properties, 3 companies, 4 commercial establishments, 11 vehicles and 473 livestock, valued at $ 30,864’880,000. The assets are located in the municipalities of Yondó (Antioquia); Apía, Santuario, Santa Rosa de Cabal, Dosquebradas and Pereira (Risaralda); Victoria and Viterbo (Caldas); Ulloa (Valle del Cauca), Piedecuesta (Santander) and Garzón (Huila).