The Colombian Prosecutor’s Office handed over to the Victim Reparation Fund assets valued at 52,700 million pesos (about 10 million dollars) and who, apparently, were from the paramilitary United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC).
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This was reported this Sunday by that body, which detailed in a statement that this “This is the fourth phase of the handover plan led by the Transitional Justice Directorate, which makes available to the Fund, for its administration, properties that would have been acquired by the extinct AUC“, the bloodiest group in the Colombian armed conflict.
In total there are 73 properties which are located in the departments of Antioquia, Boyacá, Caldas, Casanare, Córdoba, Cundinamarca, Magdalena, Risaralda and Valle del Cauca. “Its illegal origin was revealed thanks to the investigative work carried out in coordination with the CTI (Technical Investigation Corps) of the Prosecutor’s Office, and its specialized groups of experts, accountants, forensics and surveyors, among others,” the information added.
In that line, There are eight properties in Bogotá that, apparently, are linked to Guillermo León Acevedo, alias “Memo Fantasma”, who is supposedly related to the Central Bolivar Bloc (BCB) of the AUC. There are also four farms in Cáceres, in the department of Antioquia (northwest), related to the AUC’s Héroes de Granada Bloc, as well as a property in Necoclí, in the same region, associated with that group’s Elmer Cárdenas Bloc.
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“In just over 33 months, since February 2020, the Prosecutor’s Office has delivered 996 assets to the Victim Reparation Fund, which amount to 796,099 million pesos (about 165.6 million dollars).“added the Prosecutor’s Office.
EFE
