{"id":34030,"date":"2014-08-29T16:33:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T21:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=34030"},"modified":"2014-09-22T11:38:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T16:38:51","slug":"state-seized-properties-which-were-the-product-of-contract-carousel-and-belonged-to-emilio-tapia-aldana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2014\/08\/29\/state-seized-properties-which-were-the-product-of-contract-carousel-and-belonged-to-emilio-tapia-aldana\/","title":{"rendered":"State seized properties which were the product of \u201cContract Carousel\u201d and belonged to Emilio Tapia Aldana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The process to take possession of properties owned by people who are responsible for the \u201cContract Carousel\u201d (Carrusel de la Contrataci\u00f3n)<sub> 1<\/sub> \u00a0Bogot\u00e1 continues. This is a case of forfeiture (Extinci\u00f3n de Dominio)<sub>2<\/sub> of 24 properties with a value of approximately $40.633 million pesos that the former contractor Emilio Jos\u00e9 Tapia Aldana, his front man Carlos Augusto Joly and his closest relatives had under their name.<\/p>\n<p>The Attorney General&#8217;s Office conducted an asset seizure process (Extinci\u00f3n de Dominio) against six properties, twelve companies, financial products and over 2,700 million pesos which were the product of accounts seized to Temach company. Three of these properties are located in Bogot\u00e1, two in Sahag\u00fan (Cordoba) and one land in Tabio (Cundinamarca).<\/p>\n<p>The National Unit of Prosecutor&#8217;s Offices on Assets Forfeiture and Money Laundering is tracking properties which are under the name of Tapias Aldana, Joly Herrera, his relatives and third parties. The latter, do not have the financial \u00a0capacity to obtain the properties that appear under their names.<\/p>\n<p>This case begins on April 2013 when a decision was handed down in order to conduct an Assets Forfeiture process (Extinci\u00f3n de Dominio) against properties belonging to 14 individuals who worked during government of the detainee Samuel Moreno Rojas, former mayor of Bogot\u00e1, and\u00a0 some lobbyists and contractors who are part of the so called \u201cContract Cartel\u201d (Cartel de la Contrataci\u00f3n in spanish).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Contract carousel: <em>Carrusel de la contrataci\u00f3n<\/em> in spanish. It is an ongoing investigation into corruption and irregularities concerning\u00a0 public construction in Bogot\u00e1, among others.<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Assets Forfeiture: <em>Extinci\u00f3n de Dominio <\/em>in spanish. A constitutional\u00a0 action to take control of properties illegally obtained.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The process to take possession of properties owned by people who are responsible for the \u201cContract Carousel\u201d (Carrusel de la Contrataci\u00f3n) 1 \u00a0Bogot\u00e1 continues. This is a case of forfeiture (Extinci\u00f3n de Dominio)2 of 24 properties with a value of approximately $40.633 million pesos that the former contractor Emilio Jos\u00e9 Tapia Aldana, his front man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34030"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34031,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34030\/revisions\/34031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}