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The authorities identified “the financial network that, supposedly, the ‘Clan del Golfo’ used to hide its illicit income and support its criminal apparatus in Urabá and the Atlantic Coast,” said the Prosecutor’s Office.
After that, several operations were carried out in Rionegro and other municipalities of Antioquia, Risaralda and Quindío, in which seven people who would be part of this structure were captured.
Among them are John Fredy Zapata Garzón, alias ‘Candado’ or ‘Messi’, alleged leader and classified as an ‘invisible narco’, because for several years he remained hidden and his illegal activities were unknown to the authorities.
This man would have been at the service of the heads of the ‘Clan del Golfo’ since 2012 to acquire, invest, conserve, safeguard and manage personal property, real estate and companies, some of these facades used to launder multimillion dollar amounts of money.
Some of these activities, according to the evidence collected by the researchers, show that “to facilitate the concealment of the money, professional soccer players and musical groups were sponsored”.
The entity did not provide names of the footballers or artists who would be involved in the events, but it did indicate that during the proceedings, assets were also occupied for the purpose of extinction of ownership related to those events. The Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa, specified:
“The Attorney General’s Office obtained the extinction of the domain of 4 billion pesos from the ‘Clan del Golfo’, 4 billion pesos that were also used in different fields: there were real estate, there were livestock and the use of those resources for, even, football businesses and music companies“.
Those assets, known as ‘Candado’ and his accomplices, were imposed precautionary measures of seizure, kidnapping and suspension of the device power.
The prosecuting body will charge the seven detainees with the crimes of: aggravated money laundering, aggravated conspiracy to commit a crime and illicit enrichment. This was Barbosa’s statement:
Among the assets occupied by the authorities in Urabá and the Coffee Axis are 33 properties, 37 vehicles, 6 companies, 4 commercial establishments, 6 companies, 24 bank accounts and 1,088 livestock, which “will remain at the disposal of the Special Assets Company ( SAE) for its administration ”, detailed the entity, which showed this video:
The action of the Prosecutor’s Office, in conjunction with @PoliceColombia, made it possible to impact the financial network that, supposedly, the ‘Clan del Golfo’ used to hide its illicit income and support its criminal apparatus in Urabá and the Atlantic Coast. pic.twitter.com/VJmostuP4S
– Colombia Prosecutor’s Office (@FiscaliaCol) December 1, 2020
The ‘Clan del Golfo’, the largest Colombian criminal gang, was born after the demobilization of the paramilitary United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) in 2006 and is dedicated to drug trafficking, kidnapping, extortion and illegal mining, among other crimes.
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