{"id":31668,"date":"2013-06-06T16:47:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T21:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=31668"},"modified":"2013-06-13T09:28:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T14:28:17","slug":"asset-forfeiture-code-would-be-adopted-by-a-bill-which-has-passed-first-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2013\/06\/06\/asset-forfeiture-code-would-be-adopted-by-a-bill-which-has-passed-first-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Asset Forfeiture Code would be adopted by a bill which has passed first debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bill to adopt Asset Forfeiture Code (<em>in Spanish: Extinci\u00f3n de Dominio<\/em>) presented by the Office of the Attorney-General of Colombia, last April, has passed first debate in the First Commission of the Colombian House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>The bill establishes a new regulation to have strong mechanisms enabling to pursue assets of illicit origin in the lead of criminal organizations. \u201cThe Office of the Attorney-General has about 95 thousand seized properties in the course of an Asset Forfeiture, which once it is proved its illicit origin, they could be transferred to the State&#8221; said the Colombian Attorney-General, Eduardo Montealegre Lynett.<\/p>\n<p>This proposal envisages that the procedures are more expeditious and the establishment of a special fund to monetize properties, i.e., that these can be sold while judgment is pronounced; so money could set aside for care programs or victims reparations, or for the strengthening of the justice.<\/p>\n<p>At present, an Asset Forfeiture procedure can last more than seven years and as have been set out in the bill the term is maximum 18 months. Attorney General Montealegre added that &#8220;the Office of the Attorney-General has cases for more than 15 years against members of drug cartels that are worth many billion pesos, which can be exploited by the State&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Another point which is highlighted in the proposal is the inclusion of the terms of \u201cJusticia Premial\u201d (Reward Justice), as the plea bargain and a benefit to the defendant that would allow him\/her to keep a five per cent of his properties in return for collaboration with justice, if he\/she contributes to the recovery of those properties of illicit origin.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the head of prosecuting body emphasized that the bill also strengthens international cooperation, as what is expected is that decisions made abroad about asset forfeitures can take effect in Colombia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bill to adopt Asset Forfeiture Code (in Spanish: Extinci\u00f3n de Dominio) presented by the Office of the Attorney-General of Colombia, last April, has passed first debate in the First Commission of the Colombian House of Representatives. The bill establishes a new regulation to have strong mechanisms enabling to pursue assets of illicit origin in [&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-31668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31668"}],"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=31668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31669,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31668\/revisions\/31669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}