The capture of the cavalryman Néstor Alonso Tarazona Enciso evidenced the alleged maneuvers that would have been carried out to launder money from drug businesses with the Sinaloa poster and the New Generation poster.
Tarazona, who, as this newspaper revealed, was captured on Saturday night in Pereira, did not accept the charges of money laundering and illicit enrichment and was ordered to be insured in a prison.
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The man had been blacklisted from the United States Department of the Treasury, considered one of the links of the Sinaloa cartel, led at the time by Joaquin ‘Chapo’ Guzmán, Extradited from Mexico to the USA. UU. In January 2017.
In 2009, the rider appeared in a report from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). UU., As part of the organization chart of the Sinaloa cartel and noted for providing material support to the illegal organization through two companies owned by it, Agropecuària La Creu SA and Viver Les Cabanyes Ltda.
According to the investigation of the prosecutor 24 of money laundering, the man formed companies of distribution of agricultural products and services, as well as a nursery of birds with money that could not justify.
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These companies were engaged in the breeding of race horses and ostriches that were part of a business of fattening and selling their meat.
The captured man did not accept the charges.
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“These illegal activities allowed Néstor Tarazona and Teresa Ortega (his wife) to increase their assets unjustifiably and acquire high-value movable and immovable property, which are registered in the name of third parties who are part of his family, “the prosecution said during the charge hearing.
In the companies Agropecuària La Creu and Viver Les Cabanyes Ltda. . The Public Prosecutor’s Office also pointed out that these companies engaged in livestock and poultry farming operated in apartments.
The accusing body noted that the company Agropecuària La Creu SA was liquidated in 2013, “that is, for 15 years, Tarazona Enciso provided material support to the ‘ Sinaloa poster by means of this company facade “. In addition it questioned that a double accounting in the company / signature was detected.
Between 2007 and 2008 alone, the company acquired loans in the form of leasing for 2.2 billion pesos, which were canceled in their entirety in 2010. This, for the Prosecutor’s Office, is evidence that the company would have been used to mix legal and illegal resources from drug businesses.
The investigation states that in just one year 1.3 billion pesos were hidden, which were obtained on behalf of income and the sale of properties such as El Cambula and El Galpón, located in Sant Martí, Meta, Where the captured man had established his center of operations.
In another of its companies, Criadero Les Cabanyes Ltda., There were 23 walking horses (trot and gallop), 6 walking horses (trail and gallop), 24 walking horses (pure Colombian trail), 2 walking horses (Colombian fine step), when the Prosecutor’s Office considers that he did not have the income to buy these animals.
This company, between the years 2001, 2008, 2009 and 2011, would have hidden 1,328 million pesos from the Colombian state.
The wife of the captured, according to the investigation, is reported to have tried to give the appearance of legality to 2,682,000 pesos through the acquisition of vehicles, movable property, real estate and other assets, and also records an increase in assets of 4,807 million pesos.
The Prosecutor’s Office considers that the captive should remain deprived of his liberty as his economic power and proximity to influential people could affect the investigation.
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