The Government and former paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso They reported that Nearly 400 items delivered for reparation to victims by the former commander of the extinct United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) They are not in the Executive’s inventory and their whereabouts are unknown.
Mancuso has been handing over more than 500 assets to the Colombian State through the Justice and Peace processes since 2007, especially farms, properties and businesses that the AUC used, of which The Victims Unit has only inventoried 123.
“We have realized that there are around 400 missing assets that do not appear in the databases as having been delivered by the State, which means that in all these years a huge amount of assets have been lost.“, the director of the National Land Agency (ANT), Felipe Harman, told reporters.
(See: ANT invited Salvatore Mancuso to participate in the agrarian reform as a peace manager).
The official made this statement after meeting with the director of the Unit for Comprehensive Care and Reparation for Victims (Uariv), Lilia Solano, and with Mancuso.
Precisely the former paramilitary chief, who has been appointed peace manager by the government of President Gustavo Petro, He assured that he had effectively delivered all the goods and that some of them were missing”approximately 380-400” on the list of the Uariv, which is the body that administers them.
“I am committed to helping you clarify the facts.“, Mancuso said, reaffirming his commitment to providing reparation to victims and regretting the obstacles encountered in Justice and Peace for this task.
(See: The reasons why they ordered the release of former paramilitary chief Salvatore Mancuso).
Salvatore Mancuso, while in prison in the US.
Mancuso, free since July
Mancuso received the order of release and left La Picota prison last July, where he was detained since he arrived in Colombia last February after being deported from the US where He served a sentence of 15 years and 10 months for drug trafficking.
However, since he was deported to Colombia on February 27, his status was in doubt, as there are several courts – the ordinary one, Justice and Peace (created after the demobilization of the AUC) and the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (operational due to the peace agreement with the FARC) – that are debating who should take care of the ex-paramilitary.
(See: The ELN’s response to the Government: ‘Peace talks can continue without a ceasefire’).
Finally, Justice and Peace gave the green light for his release and the National Penitentiary and Prison Institute (INPEC), after sending 31 letters to various judicial offices to find out if there were any precautionary measures against him, also gave the green light to the freedom of the former paramilitary.
The AUC is the group to which the most homicides are attributed during the Colombian conflict, war crimes for which Mancuso has not yet been tried, since the sentence served in the United States is for drug trafficking.
However, the Government believes that As a ‘peace manager’ you can help heal some of those wounds. and, for example, helping in the recovery of bodies of people who disappeared due to paramilitaries in both Colombia and Venezuela.
EFE
