{"id":39434,"date":"2020-10-27T09:38:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T14:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=39434"},"modified":"2020-10-29T10:45:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T15:45:15","slug":"the-office-of-the-attorney-general-obtained-a-detention-measure-against-three-members-of-a-family-who-allegedly-laundered-money-for-more-than-82-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2020\/10\/27\/the-office-of-the-attorney-general-obtained-a-detention-measure-against-three-members-of-a-family-who-allegedly-laundered-money-for-more-than-82-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"The  Office of the Attorney General obtained a detention measure against three members of a family who allegedly laundered money for more than 82 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Apparently, for two years, through a neighborhood supermarket, the criminal network which was allegedly made up of the people investigated, gave the appearance of legality when foreign currency of illicit origin was brought from China and Turkey.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The Office of the Attorney General, through the Special Directorate against Money Laundering, in a joint effort with the Fiscal and Customs Police (Polic\u00eda Fiscal y Aduanera Polfa) and based on intelligence reports from the Financial Information and Analysis Unit (Unidad de Informaci\u00f3n y An\u00e1lisis Financiero Uiaf) obtained the arrest and prosecution of three people who allegedly committed money laundering.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The investigation carried out under the Strategic Direction defined by the Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa Delgado, which considers the persecution of assets and sources that finance the criminal structures, made it possible to demonstrate that the prosecuted individuals legalized through a front company called La Buena Promesa SAS, the entry of foreign currency of illicit origin from Hong Kong (China) and Turkey, without carrying out the commercial operations that justified it. This company was allegedly involved in the wholesale trade of food products.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The people involved are brothers Diego Fabi\u00e1n and M\u00f3nica Alejandra N\u00fa\u00f1ez Vergel, members and founders of the alleged company that was actually a neighborhood supermarket and also, her husband Edwin Sa\u00fal Garc\u00eda Castellanos. The Office of the Attorney General charged them with money laundering and criminal conspiracy to commit money laundering.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The three were arrested on October 22<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0in C\u00facuta (Norte de Santander) and detention measures with deprivation of liberty were issued: prison sentence for the men and home confinement for the woman.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">For almost a year, the Office of the Attorney General and Polfa have been tracking this structure whose company operated in Villa del Rosario (Norte de Santander); However, it was possible to stablish that its main activity was not related to the foreign exchange operations that were proved between September 2016 and June 2017 regarding the entry of foreign currency for a value of USD 28&#8217;064,126, equivalent for the time to COP $ 82,560&#8217;560,690. \u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">In addition, the authorities determined that\u00a0<i>La Buena Promesa SAS<\/i>\u00a0did not have records of trade operations related to imports and exports to justify the income of said amounts.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">It should be noted that all the money received in the company\u00b4s checking account was apparently transferred through 428 checks in favor of third parties with limited resources, who were not suppliers or clients, so it is believed that those withdrawals were not intended for its corporate purpose, but to give the appearance of legality to the illicit resources upon entering Colombia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The investigators also found that a single person carried out 222 transactions in two years with withdrawals worth COP $ 45,710 million, while another did so for COP $ 17,525 million.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The Office of the Attorney General makes this information public for reasons of general interest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, for two years, through a neighborhood supermarket, the criminal network which was allegedly made up of the people investigated, gave the appearance of legality when foreign currency of illicit origin was brought from China and Turkey.\u00a0 The Office of the Attorney General, through the Special Directorate against Money Laundering, in a joint effort with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39434"}],"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=39434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39435,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39434\/revisions\/39435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}