Juan Felipe Cárdenas Restrepo, Director specialized in Assets Forfeiture
He holds a Law degree from Universidad de Medellín. He is specialist and holds a master’s degree in Criminal Procedural Law and Theory of Crime from Universidad Autónoma Latinoamericana.
He has more than 17 years of experience in the Judiciary, with a career in criminal justice and in the specialized jurisdiction of assets forfeiture. He began his judicial career as a court officer and later he served as a litigant, municipal judge of mixed jurisdiction in Yarumal; municipal supervisory judge in Cartagena; and circuit criminal judge specialized in assets forfeiture in Antioquia.
He has national and international education in assets forfeiture, assets recovery, and transnational organized crime. He participated in programs of the Office of the Attorney General of Colombia, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the United States Embassy, and the American Bar Association.
Additionally, he has been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate programs in criminal law and assets forfeiture for over 15 years.