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For more than seven years, Herles Ariza Becerra has appeared as the head of a kind of ‘miniholding’ of assets seized from the already corrupt mob like the Nule cousins.
In addition to being aide-de-camp to a former president, Ariza is a business administrator, an expert in criminal investigation and has studies even at Harvard. And because of his resume, he was chosen among the 60 depositories of the mafia’s assets when the opaque National Narcotics Directorate (DNE) went into liquidation.
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For 6 years it has been liquidating four of Enilce López’s ‘jewels’, alias la Gata (Aposmar, Uniapuestas, Unicat and Aposucre), which on the books report assets of 30,000 million pesos. And he also appeared as liquidator of Kapital Energy, one of the firms linked to the Nules.
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EL TIEMPO established that seven active companies, a dozen in liquidation and 220 movable and immovable assets are assigned to it by the Special Assets Society (SAE).
In fact, in the SAE, some consider the ex-policeman a kind of ‘cacao’ of the narco-goods.
(In context: Attention: Farc gold was sold for $ 40,630 million pesos) But at the end of 2020, an anonymous man came to the Comptroller General, mentioning the depositary and warning about an atypical concentration of assets. In addition, supposed anomalies in its handling.
Anonymous and ‘technical error’
One of them is a millionaire debt to the State for the rental of a drug store.
EL TIEMPO had access to various requirements that the Delegate of the Justice sector, headed by Sebastián Montoya Mejía, began to send to the Special Assets Society (SAE), regarding the assignments to that depository.
(You may be interested in: House by jail for reputed businessman for scam with ‘Casa Gacha’) The first surprise that was found is that “due to a technical error” the control of the limit of quotas for the allocation of companies was not carried out, for this reason it had more than allowed under its administration.
Sebastián Montoya, delegate controller of the Security sector.
“We find an individual who has 7 companies assigned, knowing that Frisco’s quota limit is 5. And we cannot understand why he has more than 30 real estate if it is a random selection,” explained Deputy Comptroller Sebastián Montoya Mejía . And he announced a special action to the SAE regarding depositories.
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EL TIEMPO asked if anyone could influence those assignments, but the SAE insisted on a “mistake” and a “wrong interpretation of the business rules”.
The Delegate of the Justice sector also found that there is a debt of about 9,500 million pesos for the rental of a megalocal, in Villavicencio, linked to the Constructora Llano Centro SAS, another of the active companies assigned to Ariza.
Today there is an arbitration court in which the SAE is claiming a smaller sum from the well-known large-scale company that rented it for 20 years, before the Prosecutor’s Office seized it.
This is the office in which the SAE admits that there was a technical error in the allocation of companies.
‘There are no irregularities’
EL TIEMPO located Ariza, who assured that he updated the leases of the megalocal and that the company that leased it had to consign the monthly fee in a judicial account because the SAE did not issue the coupons that were required: “I did not know the court arbitration ”.
And about the concentration of assets that the Comptroller’s Office warned about, he said: “If I refuse to receive a company or real estate, they remove me from everything.
And he added that in the investigation carried out by the Comptroller’s Office there is nothing that is entrusted to it, nor is the transparent handling that it has given to drug goods is questioned.
Among the active companies under his charge are Álvarez Ríos e Hijos, Sociedad Constructora Sara Ltda., Juegos & Azar Inversiones, Épica House, Uniproducciones and Constructora Llano Centro.
According to Ariza, the first two are linked to a 115-hectare estate and four wineries that it has leased. The same happens with a property owned by the construction company Sara.
But he warns that in other cases, such as that of Uniproduccines, which made propaganda and videos to the ‘Cat’ firms, they turned out to be made of paper. And about the Épica House hotel, in Cartagena, he says that he has not been able to take office because someone changed his license plate and changed his name.
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He also explained that many of the properties and real estate awarded are individual parking lots, rooms and even the kitchenware of bakeries and one-star hotels that he has received.
And he added that although he completes 6 years liquidating the firms linked to the ‘Cat’, it is because he had to wait for technical and legal concepts to proceed, since they were companies that he received active.
However, EL TIEMPO established that, in January, the SAE told the Comptroller’s Office that it would remove Ariza from some companies to correct the errors.
And so they repeated it to EL TIEMPO in the legal requirement.
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But EL TIEMPO established that the SAE lists other measures that affect even more depositors.
The Comptroller’s Office has already notified the SAE that it had disciplinary and fiscal annotations (for 9,500 million) for this case.
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