{"id":38514,"date":"2020-03-12T12:14:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T12:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=38514"},"modified":"2020-03-20T16:28:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T16:28:40","slug":"properties-belonging-to-mayor-of-chia-cundinamarca-and-two-other-people-were-seized-due-to-alleged-acts-of-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2020\/03\/12\/properties-belonging-to-mayor-of-chia-cundinamarca-and-two-other-people-were-seized-due-to-alleged-acts-of-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Properties belonging to mayor of Ch\u00eda (Cundinamarca) and two other people were seized due to alleged acts of corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span lang=\"en-US\">Due to alleged irregularities that caused a detriment, the municipality is currently paying public works that were never built.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">In order to impact criminal finances, the Office of the Attorney seized* 11 properties and companies valued at approximately $11 billion that were allegedly acquired with funds derived from fraud committed against the municipality of Ch\u00eda (Cundinamarca) in 2015.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The joint action carried out\u00a0\u00a0by the Special Directorate against Assets Seizure* and the Unit of Public Administration in Cundinamarca allowed to locate the properties and commercial establishments in exclusive areas of Bogot\u00e1, Cajic\u00e1, Ch\u00eda, F\u00faquene and Nemoc\u00f3n.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The facts are related to a contract signed during the administration of the then-mayor of Ch\u00eda (Cundinamarca), Guillermo Varela Romero, between 2012 and 2015, amounting to $19 billion. Its purpose was to build a wastewater treatment plant and use unique decontamination technologies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">*Assets Seizure:\u00a0<i>Extinci\u00f3n de Dominio<\/i>\u00a0in Spanish means \u201cLoss of ownership of property derived from or used in criminal activity which will be seized by government\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to alleged irregularities that caused a detriment, the municipality is currently paying public works that were never built. In order to impact criminal finances, the Office of the Attorney seized* 11 properties and companies valued at approximately $11 billion that were allegedly acquired with funds derived from fraud committed against the municipality of Ch\u00eda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-assets-forfeiture","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38514"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38516,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38514\/revisions\/38516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}