{"id":38897,"date":"2020-07-01T13:01:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T18:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=38897"},"modified":"2020-07-07T17:04:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T22:04:16","slug":"the-office-of-the-attorney-general-implemented-precautionary-measures-aimed-at-carrying-out-an-asset-seizure-process-on-a-property-belonging-to-former-ambassador-fernando-sanclemente","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2020\/07\/01\/the-office-of-the-attorney-general-implemented-precautionary-measures-aimed-at-carrying-out-an-asset-seizure-process-on-a-property-belonging-to-former-ambassador-fernando-sanclemente\/","title":{"rendered":"The Office of the Attorney General implemented precautionary measures aimed at carrying out an asset seizure* process on a property belonging to former Ambassador Fernando Sanclemente"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Members of the Office of the Attorney General and the National Police seized four rural properties in Guasca (Cundinamarca) where a cocaine processing laboratory was found. Three people who allegedly worked in the laboratory were arrested.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The Office of the Attorney General, through the Special Office on Assets Seizure seized four (4) rural properties and two (2) vehicles belonging to the corporate entity named\u00a0<i>Las Colinas de Guasca Ltda.,<\/i>\u00a0a company of which is part the former Ambassador of Colombia to Uruguay Fernando Sanclemente as well as members of his family and of which he was his legal representative until February 6, 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The seized properties have a commercial value of $150,000,000,000 and were placed under the authority of the economic society\u00a0<i>Sociedad de Activos Especiales (SAE).<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The assets seizure process arose in response to attested copies of the case due to the discovery of a laboratory to process cocaine inside this farm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">This finding took place on February 12, 2020, in a joint operation between a prosecutor of the Special Office against Drug Trafficking, the Police and with the support of the U.S.\u00a0Immigration and Customs Enforcement in which the building was raided. As a result, a cocaine\u00a0manufacturing plant was found. During the proceeding, seven (7) tons of chemical supplies and about ten (10) kilos of processed cocaine were seized and five people were arrested. The defendants did not plead guilty to the charges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">*(<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>Extinci\u00f3n del Derecho de Dominio in Spanish<\/i><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">) which means a loss of ownership of property derived from or used in criminal activity and therefore, the property is seized, confiscated or recovered<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0by the government\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Office of the Attorney General and the National Police seized four rural properties in Guasca (Cundinamarca) where a cocaine processing laboratory was found. Three people who allegedly worked in the laboratory were arrested. The Office of the Attorney General, through the Special Office on Assets Seizure seized four (4) rural properties and [&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-38897","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\/38897"}],"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=38897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38898,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38897\/revisions\/38898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}