The prosecution occupies 98 properties owned by Los Costeños in Atlantico

The Attorney General’s Office said in a statement this Saturday that it seized 98 assets, worth more than $27,900 million, belonging to the Los Costeños criminal gang in Atlántico, which will now be controlled by the SAE.

These properties, it says, “would have been acquired with money from extortion collecting and the usurpation of land.”

The result is reflected in the development of the ‘Argenta’ strategy, through which the Criminal Finance Delegate, the Special Group for the Investigation and Prosecution of Economic-Financial Crimes and the Group for the Pursuit of Illicit Assets of the CTI have sold the 98 assets identified “that would belong to possible members of the criminal organization Los Costeños, which has interference in Atlántico and other departments of the Caribbean coast.”

The report adds that 11 companies, 17 commercial establishments, 44 vehicles and 26 real estate, between rural and urban, have been affected by precautions of detention, embargo, kidnapping and takeover.

The assets are located in Puerto Colombia, Baranoa, Tubará and Barranquilla, and most of the assets “belong to relatives of Maribel Duarte Arias and her daughter Mayra Alejandra Vera Duarte, who is said to be the partner of Jorge Eliécer Díaz Collazos, aka Castor, alleged leader of Los Costeños. Currently, the two women are being prosecuted and associated with criminal proceedings for various behaviors related to that criminal structure.”

According to the prosecution, the investigations indicate that the properties were allegedly acquired with money from the collection of racketeering in various sectors of Barranquilla, Puerto Colombia and Soledad, and with funds obtained from the sale of properties seized by force by their owners.




Source: El heraldo

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