{"id":39119,"date":"2020-08-31T08:59:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T13:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=39119"},"modified":"2020-09-01T11:29:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T16:29:27","slug":"big-hit-against-el-mesa-criminal-structure-which-is-responsible-for-murders-displacements-and-other-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2020\/08\/31\/big-hit-against-el-mesa-criminal-structure-which-is-responsible-for-murders-displacements-and-other-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Big hit against \u2018El Mesa\u2019 criminal structure which is responsible for murders, displacements, and other crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The Office of the Attorney General and the National Police seized 100 assets in Antioquia and Sucre valued at $200 billion. Among the seized properties, there is a mining title deed for the exploitation of coltan in Vichada.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">This result derives from the guidelines defined by the Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa Delgado, to pursue the income and illicit assets of criminal structures<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The financial tracking and the plenty of probative material collected by the Attorney General&#8217;s Office and the Dijin &#8211; National Police revealed different illegal maneuvers that the criminal structure &#8216;El Mesa&#8217; allegedly used to hide the money derived from drug trafficking, murders, forced displacements and extortions in the municipalities of Antioquia, Bogot\u00e1 and Soacha (Cundinamarca), and Tunja (Boyac\u00e1).<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">During the investigations, it was found that the leaders of the criminal organization, alias Vallejo or El Doctor, Monta\u00f1ero, Malacate and Piolo, acquired properties that were registered in the name of their relatives, some of them minors and senior citizens, and alleged front men.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">In this sense, the Special Office on Assets Seizure imposed\u00a0<\/span><a id=\"LPlnk429095\"><\/a><span lang=\"en-US\">issued\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-CA\">precautionary actions such as suspension of power to alienate a property and a seizure process<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0on 100 properties\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">valued at $200 billion that were allegedly part of the criminal patrimony that members of \u2018El Mesa\u2019 wanted to hide.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The seizure process was carried out in Medell\u00edn, Bello, Rionegro, Copacabana, Girardota, Envigado and San Jer\u00f3nimo (Antioquia); Santiago de Tol\u00fa (Sucre) and Mit\u00fa (Vaup\u00e9s).<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of the Attorney General and the National Police seized 100 assets in Antioquia and Sucre valued at $200 billion. Among the seized properties, there is a mining title deed for the exploitation of coltan in Vichada.\u00a0 This result derives from the guidelines defined by the Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa Delgado, to pursue the [&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-39119","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\/39119"}],"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=39119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39120,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39119\/revisions\/39120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}