In a gigantic operation carried out by the National Police in cooperation with the Attorney General’s Office and the Drug Control Administration Agency (DEA), imposed precautionary measures of seizure, sequestration and suspension of the purchasing power of the domain right to 652 assets, valued at more than 50 billion pesos to the properties of two of the leaders of the criminal organization of the ‘Clan del Golfo’ in six regions of the country.
The assets that will go to asset forfeiture would be part of the armed structure in association with the Office of Envigado, as well as alias ‘El Tuzo’ and alias ‘Pipón’, drug traffickers who were extradited to the United States.
The properties are located in Bogotá, Bolívar, Antioquia, Valle del Cauca, Putumayo and Casanare.
The director of Criminal Investigation and Interpol (Dijín), General Fernando Murillo, explained that the investigation lasted 12 months in which it was identified that the assets belonged to a figurehead alias ‘El Indio’, main leader of the ‘Clan del Golfo’, who died in March 2018 in the midst of operations by the Public Force.
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It was also established that this figurehead also worked with other drug traffickers who were in charge of planning and executing shipments of cocaine hydrochloride to the United States, as part of the business of the criminal organization to which he belonged.
“Given the ease of buying cattle and horses, These people made capital injections of illicit origins as a result of drug trafficking, this being the modus operandi of the organization to acquire and try to justify economic income with which they acquired other properties, thereby generating a mixture of legal and illegal money,” said the Dijín of the National Police.
Several commercial companies would have been constituted in which it was possible to establish by the Dijín, which they did not have the economic capacity to be part of them or to make capital contributions and after being formally constituted, operations of purchase and sale of goods were carried out through relatives.
Forensic experts in financial and accounting analysis determined that the alleged owners of these properties did not have the economic capacity to buy them, but instead their assets increased unjustifiably by more than 6,000 million pesos in 4 years.
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The 652 assets that will go to asset forfeiture are: 26 properties, 17 vehicles, two commercial companies, three commercial establishments, 24 horses and 580 Brahaman cattle as well as a horse farm in the department of Bolívar that has won international awards.
All the assets remained available to the Special Assets Company (SAE).
