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Men from the CTI of the Prosecutor’s Office and the National Army occupied in the last hours a property known as ‘La veranera’, valued at 560 million pesos and which would be owned by former paramilitary Juan Guillermo Monsalve.
Monsalve is the man for whom the Supreme Court investigated (and now the Prosecutor’s Office) Álvaro Uribe. He said they were pressuring him to declare that Senator Iván Cepeda offered him perks to accuse the former president of having ties to illegal groups.
The investigating entity detailed in a statement released at noon this Friday that the operation for the purpose of extinction of domain was carried out in the municipality of Apía, Risaralda.
(Read also: Judge orders to investigate publication of interception of Uribe case)
The Prosecutor’s Office pointed out that the property “would be the property of the aforementioned convicted former paramilitary. However, it was evidenced that the ownership of the property would be in the head of relatives of the defendant, in order, presumably, to evade the action of the administration of justice.”
At the time of purchase, the farm was valued at $ 454,090,783.
The investigation also determined that neither Monsalve nor the current owners had the legal economic capacity to pay for a property like this. “At the time of the apparent negotiation, that is, in 2016, it was valued at $ 454’090,783.” For this reason, says the Prosecutor’s Office, “its increase in assets would only be understood to be justified, apparently, by criminal activities”
Monsalve has been detained since 2008 for the crimes of extortion kidnapping, conspiracy to commit a crime and illegal possession of weapons.
(You may be interested in: The file of Monsalve, the ‘expara’ that unleashed the process against Uribe)
“For the process of extinction of the domain right, the Prosecutor’s Office imposed measures
precautionary suspension of power, seizure and kidnapping of the La Veranera farm, “the statement concluded.
ELTIEMPO.COM
