{"id":39518,"date":"2020-12-01T06:43:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T11:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=39518"},"modified":"2020-12-02T12:13:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T17:13:29","slug":"the-office-of-the-attorney-general-dismantled-a-network-involved-in-money-laundering-at-the-service-of-the-so-called-clan-del-golfo-and-seized-properties-worth-more-than-4-trillion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2020\/12\/01\/the-office-of-the-attorney-general-dismantled-a-network-involved-in-money-laundering-at-the-service-of-the-so-called-clan-del-golfo-and-seized-properties-worth-more-than-4-trillion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Office of the Attorney General dismantled a network involved in money laundering at the service of the so-called Clan del Golfo and seized properties worth more than 4 trillion"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<h4><em><strong><span lang=\"en-US\">The precautionary measures on\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-CA\">suspension of power to alienate a property\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">were carried out in Urab\u00e1 and the coffee-growing region.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><em><strong><span lang=\"en-US\">The Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa Delgado, revealed this hard blow at the meeting\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u2018Lucha contra las Organizaciones Criminales Transnacionales y sus finanzas\u2019<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0(Fight against Transnational Criminal Organizations and their finances) which was held in Santa Marta.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">A joint action between the Office of the Attorney General, through the Delegate Office against Criminal Finances, and the National Police allowed them to give a hard blow against the financial network of the so-called &#8216;Clan del Golfo&#8217; that allegedly used to hide its illegal income and support its criminal structure in Urab\u00e1 and in the Atlantic Coast.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">As a result of the proceedings carried out in Rionegro and other municipalities in Antioquia, Risaralda and Quind\u00edo, seven people who would be part of this structure were arrested, among them, the alleged ringleader John Fredy Zapata Garz\u00f3n, alias Candado or Messi. This person was considered as an \u2018invisible narco\u2019, since he hid for several years and his illegal activities were unknown by the authorities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The evidence allowed us to know that alias Candado, together with the other alleged members of the aforementioned organization were at the service of the ringleaders of the &#8216;Clan del Golfo&#8217; since 2012 to acquire, invest, keep, guard and manage personal property, real estate and companies, some of these facades used to launder huge amounts of money.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Likewise, there is evidence showing that to facilitate the concealment of the money, professional soccer players and musical groups were allegedly sponsored. For these facts, the Office of the Attorney General will charge the seven arrested people with aggravated money laundering, aggravated criminal conspiracy to commit crimes, and illicit gain.<u>\u00a0<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p><u><span lang=\"en-US\">Millionaire seizure aimed at\u00a0<\/span><\/u><u><span lang=\"en-CA\">suspending the power to alienate a property<\/span><\/u><u><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/u><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Against this same organization involved in money laundering activities, the Special Directorate on Assets Seizure of the Office of the Attorney General imposed precautionary measures<\/span><span lang=\"en-CA\">\u00a0such as\u00a0<a>suspension of power to alienate a property\u00a0<\/a><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">on properties that would belong\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">to alias Candado and his alleged accomplices, whose value would exceed 4 trillion.<\/span><span lang=\"en-CA\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">&#8220;We are dismantling these criminal structures and directly attacking the illegal economies that accompany these crimes,&#8221; said Attorney General Francisco Barbosa Delgado.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The properties were seized after operations were carried out in the regions of Urab\u00e1 and the coffee-growing region. These are 33 properties, 37 vehicles, 6 companies, 4 commercial establishments, 6 companies, 24 bank accounts and 1,088 livestock.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The assets that were seized will be place under the authority of\u00a0\u00a0<i>Sociedad de Activos Especiales<\/i>\u00a0(SAE).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">This result was announced by the Attorney General during the meeting \u2018<i>Lucha contra las Organizaciones Criminales Transnacionales y sus finanzas\u2019<\/i>, which took place in Santa Marta (Magdalena) in which a commission of the United States government and of the\u00a0<a>Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (OPDAT)<\/a>\u00a0participated.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">During the meeting, they discussed about judicial cooperation issues and the challenges posed by transnational crime. In that sense, the Attorney General explained the prioritization of investigations against illegal finances, one of the main axes of the 2020-2024 Strategic Direction\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">\u201cThe fight against criminality, against the assets of these criminals, has to be one of the essential values \u200b\u200bof this cooperation. Each Prosecutor who is pursuing criminals has to be accompanied by a prosecutor assigned to the Office against Money Laundering, a prosecutor assigned to the Office on Assets Seizure and, at the same time, accompany actions related to illicit gain&#8221; said the Attorney General.\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>The precautionary measures on\u00a0suspension of power to alienate a property\u00a0were carried out in Urab\u00e1 and the coffee-growing region. The Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa Delgado, revealed this hard blow at the meeting\u00a0\u2018Lucha contra las Organizaciones Criminales Transnacionales y sus finanzas\u2019\u00a0(Fight against Transnational Criminal Organizations and their finances) which was held in Santa Marta.\u00a0 A joint action [&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-39518","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\/39518"}],"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=39518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39519,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39518\/revisions\/39519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}