{"id":36480,"date":"2017-03-22T11:22:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T16:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=36480"},"modified":"2017-03-31T15:46:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T20:46:41","slug":"plenary-session-of-the-house-of-representatives-approves-a-draft-bill-which-modifies-statue-on-assets-forfeiture-extincion-de-dominio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2017\/03\/22\/plenary-session-of-the-house-of-representatives-approves-a-draft-bill-which-modifies-statue-on-assets-forfeiture-extincion-de-dominio\/","title":{"rendered":"Plenary session of the House of Representatives approves a draft bill which modifies Statue on Assets Forfeiture (Extinci\u00f3n de Dominio)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo make progress in the fight against organized crime, it is essential to introduce these amendments to the statute of <em>Assets Forfeiture (Extinci\u00f3n de Dominio)<sup>1<\/sup>\u201d<\/em><strong> <\/strong>stated Attorney General, N\u00e9stor Humberto Mart\u00ednez Neira, during his speech in a debate that took place on Tuesday in the Congress in relation to the draft bill that modifies Law 1708 of 2014.<\/p>\n<p>This initiative, which was approved by the plenary session of the House of Representatives, is intended to expedite the <em>Assets Forfeiture<\/em> process<em> <\/em>to increase efficiency when managing illegal assets and to include aspects related to \u201cjusticia premial\u201d<sup>2<\/sup>, such as the recognition of cooperation of third parties that denounce and contribute to justice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Extinci\u00f3n de Dominio means \u201cLoss of ownership of property derived from or used in criminal activity which has been seized by the government\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cJusticia Premial\u201d is considered a group of benefits provided to the defendant in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessdictionary.com\/definition\/exchange.html\">exchange<\/a> for a less <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessdictionary.com\/definition\/severe.html\">severe<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessdictionary.com\/definition\/punishment.html\">punishment<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessdictionary.com\/definition\/dismissal.html\">dismissal<\/a> of some charges when he\/she agrees to plead guilty (plea bargaining) or settlements are approved, among other measures.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo make progress in the fight against organized crime, it is essential to introduce these amendments to the statute of Assets Forfeiture (Extinci\u00f3n de Dominio)1\u201d stated Attorney General, <\/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-36480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36480"}],"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=36480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36483,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36480\/revisions\/36483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}