Alias ​​Maracuyá: Nexos de palmeros with noted capo Javier García – Investigative Unit

Federal agents and investigators from the Prosecutor’s Office have been tracking information on millionaire investments in oil palm, located in Puerto Gaitán (Meta).

Specifically, they have asked about Javier García Rojas, a 60-year-old businessman, born in Caquetá, who injected capital into these types of crops but that later dissolved some businesses, when the Department of the Treasury of the United States included it in the call Clinton List.

(It may be of interest to you: The eccentricities of the owner of the $ 8,744 million narcocaleta).

García Rojas appeared, on February 19, 2018, within the organization chart of the drug trafficker José Bayron Piedrahita, alias ‘el Árabe’.

(We invite you to read: The eccentricities of the owner of the $ 8,744 million narcocaleta).

“The veteran Colombian criminal Javier García Rojas (alias Maracuyá) has been appointed and two other Colombians as Specially Designated Drug Traffickers “, was recorded in the resolution of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (Ofac).

Magnifying glass to crops

And in reports from the Prosecutor’s Office it is stated that ‘Maracuyá’ “leads an illegal structure that has obtained large capital, apparently the product of drug trafficking, money that is incorporated into the economy, through third parties or front men.”

(It may be of interest to you: On rest in Barú and with 3 surgeries, the boss of the ‘Gulf clan’ falls).Due to this connection, the Prosecutor’s Office ordered the seizure of several of his assets for a billion pesos, including a megalot located in the Mamonal area, in Cartagena, supposedly valued at 240,000 million pesos.

And although ‘Maracuyá’ tried to reach an agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office, in August 2018, and obtain an early ruling, El TIEMPO established that the offer failed. Now, the businessman faces a claim for the extinction of ownership over a good part of his assets.

(Also: The two luxurious narcohaciendas seized from a powerful capo).

But his situation has ended up affecting his former partners, among whom are known builders and investors in Palma, with a seat and spokesman in influential associations.

The reason: the day the seizure of his assets was announced, the Prosecutor’s Office described him as a “hidden boss” and activated the alarms in a part of the financial sector that had him as a client within a 1,200-hectare palm project, baptized Tenampa.

We invite you to read: Alias ​​file Popeye reappears trafficking with the Italian mafia).

In fact, investigators from the Prosecutor’s Office traveled, in 2019, to Puerto Gaitán, where several assets seized from ‘Maracuyá’ and the palm crops of Tenampa are located. But by that time there was no trace of Garcia.

Boss or businessman?

EL TIEMPO investigated and established that, in agreement with the parties (including a bank and a trust company), it was decided to reverse their participation in the Tenampa trust.

(It may be of your interest: They find a mafia cove in a luxurious house in Cali with $ 8.7 billion).And although the transfer of rights was final on August 24, 2018, currently banking sectors and even union instances are ordering the structuring and administrator of the trust to explain the business with ‘Maracuyá’.

“I met him in 2002, as a farmer in Meta and supplier of a rice cooker. Then we learned that he was planting palm trees and we invited him as an investor. It passed all bank and fiduciary checks. But, after his inclusion in the Clinton List, the reversal of his investment was decided by mutual agreement: a legal procedure, “the representative of Palmas de Puerto Gaitán, Luis Fernando Cabrera, spokesman for the trust, told EL TIEMPO.

(Also: a steel container with 11.5 tons of coca that was going to Holland falls)

And he added that although García was going to contribute 4 lots to another trust (Santa Sofía), the business never materialized. In addition, that he believes that both Ofac and the Prosecutor’s Office were informed of the reversal of his participation in Tenampa.

“In this project, Mr. García contributed 1,050 million pesos in kind (plant material). I made myself available to the Prosecutor’s Office, but they have not called me, ”said Cabrebra.

(We invite you to read: US $ 27 million falls from Colombian mafia that went to the Virgin Islands).

The fiduciary’s compliance officer also contacted the Attorney General’s Office when investigators began investigating Tenampa.

EL TIEMPO contacted the defense of alias Maracuyá, who agreed that the reversal of their participation in Tenampa was legal. And he added that they are ready to explain to both the Prosecutor’s Office and the Ofac the origin of the money that was used in that and in other businesses.

In addition, they delivered the last page of a document from the Prosecutor’s Office, from 2009, in which that body precluded García from an investigation for drug trafficking and laundering.

(It may interest you: The mega-farm in Suesca used to process coca).

In fact, they delivered certifications stating that ‘Maracuyá’ only has the case of extinction pending, in which they will demonstrate, according to them, the legal origin of their businesses and fortune.

But the Prosecutor’s Office has not retracted the qualification of “hidden boss.” And an internal investigation is advancing to establish whether the versions about an alleged proximity between one of the extinction prosecutors and a lawyer for ‘Maracuyá’ are true, which the criminal lawyer denies.

(You can read here all the articles of the Investigative Unit of EL TIEMPO).

While there is a substantive decision that establishes whether ‘Maracuyá’ is a businessman or a powerful boss, the investors of the palm continue to give explanations and declare themselves third parties in good faith.

INVESTIGATIVE UNIT
[email protected]@UinvestigativaET