Four properties located in Barranquilla (Atlántico) were seized-
The Attorney General’s Office has evidence that reveals the purchase of real estate that alias Cachete, alleged leader of the criminal group ‘Los Costeños’ made with illegal resources derived from extortions of merchants, transporters and inhabitants of various sectors of the Atlantic Coast.
These properties are: four houses located in Montes, San Roque and Barrio Abajo neighborhoods, in Barranquilla (Atlántico) which exceeded 1,543 million COP.
In different proceedings carried out on these properties between 2021 and 2024, the authorities arrested, seized firearms, ammunition, grenades, narcotics and pamphlets with threatening messages to the victims of extortion.
With this precedent and other evidence, a prosecutor appointed to the Special Directorate on Assets Forfeiture confirmed the alleged illegal origin and use of the properties. In this sense, the judge imposed precautionary measures such as suspension of power to alienate a property and a seizure process on the properties.
The Special Assets Society (Sociedad de Activos Especiales SAE) will be in charge of the properties.
The Office of the Attorney General makes this information public for reasons of general interest.
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.