{"id":31412,"date":"2013-03-20T15:03:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T20:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=31412"},"modified":"2013-03-21T18:08:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T23:08:09","slug":"approval-of-assets-seizure-of-alfonsos-cano-millionaire-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2013\/03\/20\/approval-of-assets-seizure-of-alfonsos-cano-millionaire-fortune\/","title":{"rendered":"Approval of assets seizure of Alfonso\u2019s Cano millionaire fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Unit of Money Laundering from the General Prosecutor\u00b4s Office granted the approval of assets seizure of 242 million 750 thousand dollars, 135 thousand 200 dollars and 17 thousand 500 euro seized from Guillermo Le\u00f3n S\u00e1enz Vargas, alias Alfonso Cano.<\/p>\n<p>The fortune of the killed guerrilla commander was seized by the army during the Odiseo operation, in November 2011, within the jurisdiction of Suarez, Cauca.<\/p>\n<p>In order to make a decision about the approval of assets seizure over the foreign and local currency confiscated, prosecutors took into consideration that Saenz Vargas never had a lawful occupation and on the contrary, he was always was a\u00a0 FARC member, to the point that he\u00a0 was part\u00a0 of the Secretariat of this group and criminally responsible of\u00a0 terrorism, kidnapping for ransom, attempted homicide and aggravated murder, a bomb attack against\u00a0 El Nogal club or the occupation of Mit\u00fa, Vaup\u00e9s, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The decision warns that there is evidentiary material leading to conclude that the currency seized from Guillermo Le\u00f3n S\u00e1enz Vargas, alias &#8220;Alfonso Cano&#8221;, is\u00a0 a result of an illicit activity, which has no legal basis, being of illegal origin and allows to define the request of approval.<\/p>\n<p>The approval of assets seizure of Alfonso\u2019s Cano fortune was supported by the General Prosecutor\u00b4s Office, the National Directorate of Narcotics and the Ministry of Justice and Law, who also made part of this process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Unit of Money Laundering from the General Prosecutor\u00b4s Office granted the approval of assets seizure of 242 million 750 thousand dollars, 135 thousand 200 dollars and 17 thousand 500 euro seized from Guillermo Le\u00f3n S\u00e1enz Vargas, alias Alfonso Cano. The fortune of the killed guerrilla commander was seized by the army during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31412"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31415,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31412\/revisions\/31415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}