The Prosecutor’s Office seized assets valued at more than 231,000 million pesos that would belong to a criminal network involved in smuggling

The assets are located in Antioquia, Valle del Cauca, Magdalena, Bolívar and Atlántico.

The Office of the Attorney General, in conjunction with DIJIN National Police, seized 39 assets for the purpose of  ‘extinction de dominio’* that would belong to a structure involved in the  smuggling of merchandise on a large scale.

The properties are are 19 urban and 7 rural properties, 4 vehicles, 6 companies and 3 commercial establishments, which are located in Medellín, Rionegro, Envigado, Guarne, Caldas and La Ceja (Antioquia); Cali (Valle del Cauca), Santa Marta (Magdalena), Cartagena (Bolívar) and Barranquilla (Atlántico).

Preliminary figures indicate that the assets exceed 231,000 million pesos. Apparently, they were acquired with illicit resources  entering the country, through fictitious importers and front companies, and textiles from China, Indonesia, India, Singapore, Vietnam, the United States, Panama and Peru.

According to the investigation, the smuggled products were collected at different points in Antioquia and Valle del Cauca, and from these places were distributed to other cities in the country to make clothing that was sold at national and international level.

A prosecutor from the Special Directorate for Assets Seizure imposed precautionary measures. All the assets were placed under Sociedad de Activos Especiales (SAE)  administration.

The Office of the Attorney General makes this information public for reasons of general interest.

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The information contained in this press release corresponds to the narration of the objective news provided by the officials in charge of carrying out criminal investigations within the Office of the Attorney General. By the time this communication is disclosed, the legal status of the people mentioned is still pending to be resolved by the competent judicial authority, always under the presumption of innocence contemplated by Article 29 of the Political Constitution and Article 7 of Law 906 of 2004.

Extinción del Derecho de Dominio)¹ *(Extinción del Derecho de Dominio in Spanish) which means a loss of ownership of property derived from or used in criminal activity and therefore, the property is seized, confiscated or recovered by the government”.