{"id":40135,"date":"2021-09-10T11:42:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T16:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=40135"},"modified":"2021-09-10T21:41:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T02:41:01","slug":"colombia-a-strategic-leader-in-the-fight-against-transnational-crime-in-the-region-attorney-general-francisco-barbosa-delgado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2021\/09\/10\/colombia-a-strategic-leader-in-the-fight-against-transnational-crime-in-the-region-attorney-general-francisco-barbosa-delgado\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia, a strategic leader in the fight against transnational crime in the region: Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa Delgado"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Attorney General reiterated the need to attack illicit finances in a conclusive way to affect organizations that benefit from phenomena such as drug trafficking and smuggling of migrants.<\/em><\/p>\n

At the discussion meeting “Las Finanzas Il\u00edcitas que promueven los delitos de Trata de Personas, Trata de Migrantes, Tr\u00e1fico de Drogas y Lavado de Activos<\/em>\u201d which was arranged by the Asociaci\u00f3n Iberoamericana de Ministerios P\u00fablicos (Aiamp)<\/em> and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (Unodc)<\/em>, the Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa Delgado highlighted the importance of working in a coordinated manner with countries of the region to combat organized crime and their finances.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that this scenario offers multiple opportunities to exchange best practices for prosecuting criminal finances and transnational crime, and also, something significant that all of us can do, and that is to draw protocols, joint routes, cooperation agreements to put into practice those that we have been developing\u201d stated the Attorney General, Barbosa Delgado.<\/p>\n

One of the main aspects that he mentioned was the fight against criminal finances. The\u00a0 Attorney General stated that through the strategy denominated Argenta,<\/em> the Office of the Attorney General in Colombia seized 13,980 assets between February 2020 and September 2021, valued at more than 4,000 million dollars.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the same time, once the criminal proceedings began against those allegedly responsible for these behaviors, the Delegate Office against Criminal Finances began the Assets Forfeiture process with precautionary measures to withhold those resources that are derived from criminal activities. (\u2026) Criminals are aware that their criminal problems are solved with lawyers (\u2026) and they do not feel concerned about their assets. That is why one of the central aspects when attacking criminal structures is affecting their finances\u201d stated the Attorney General.<\/p>\n

Regarding migrant smuggling, he stated that it is a problem that has been increasing, therefore, it is urgent to develop joint strategies to counteract this scourge that violates migrants\u2019 human rights.<\/p>\n

“We have detected that migrant smuggling is linked to drug trafficking and to the money production and criminal finances”. He specified that, as public ministries and Attorney General\u00b4s Offices,\u00a0 it is important to join forces to understand the criminal dynamics that occur in the region and to attack them effectively.<\/p>\n

At the end of his speech, he reiterated that Colombia will continue being a strategic partner in the fight against crime. \u201cIt is necessary that we all speak as peers to have unified investigation positions and criteria about practices; because there is no one more interested than we are in destroying criminality in our countries and improving the human rights conditions (\u2026) to generate confidence in law enforcement\u201d.<\/p>\n

Finally, the Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa, announced that he will hold a meeting with the Procurador General<\/em> of Mexico, in that country,\u00a0 to continue with the consolidation of international cooperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Attorney General reiterated the need to attack illicit finances in a conclusive way to affect organizations that benefit from phenomena such as drug trafficking and smuggling of migrants. At the discussion meeting “Las Finanzas Il\u00edcitas que promueven los delitos de Trata de Personas, Trata de Migrantes, Tr\u00e1fico de Drogas y Lavado de Activos\u201d which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-attorney-general","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40135"}],"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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40136,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40135\/revisions\/40136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}