Millions of dollars in seizures of almost a hundred assets linked to well-known companies in the oil sector due to smuggling of Colombian crude oil and alleged complicity with ELN membersIt was delivered just a few weeks ago.
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The case relates to an investigation by prosecutors’ offices and institutions in at least three countries, uncovered by EL TIEMPO, which revealed the mysterious entry and exit of oil tankers.With the Panamanian flag loaded into ports on the Caribbean coast, it set out for Singapore, Amsterdam and other parts of Asia and Europe.
Later, The names of prominent businessmen and their companies emerge in a transnational investigation involving a criminal proceeding in Colombia and a recent domain forfeiture.
For this reason, The specialized prosecutor’s office42 ordered the seizure of approximately 1.3 billion pesos, consisting of boats, a luxury building in Cartagena, luxury cars, mega plots of land and summer houses. and another hundred properties in at least five regions of the country.
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Actually, President Gustavo Petro personally requested that the case be investigated and possible complicity of Ecopetrol officials identified..
And although these assets remain in SAE’s hands, A week ago, the organization handed it over to another company in the oil sector to manage it.
About CI Fuelenergy SAS (CIFE), a company registered in December 2008 and settled in Barranquilla.
However, business leaders in the industry told EL TIEMPO: The fact that the assets were entrusted to the company in question caused surprise in the union.because they claim: “Relatively new and low capital.”
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EL TIEMPO was contacted Roberto Enrique Aguiar Seoanes will ask questions to the legal representative and owner of Cife and for the delivery of goods.
“The information circulating is malicious. Cife has the necessary experience, we are a company with more than 15 years of experience in the sectorbut we must make it clear that what we are doing is managing these assets, they do not belong to us,” Aguiar said.
And he added: “We have the financial capacity to deliver on what SAE has entrusted to us. The company’s registered capital is 50 billion pesos, its committed and paid-in capital is one billion, and it has contracts with the country’s main oil companies such as Ecopetrol.“.
Among the assets Cife currently manages is Aceicar Ltda of Cartagena, which owns a commercial enterprise worth 1,400 million pesos. There is also a company. In addition to a 12-unit building costing 1.240 million pesos. 13 more trucks were added to this.
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Moreover, Australian Bunker Suppliers CISAS is also a company affected by the measures and has assets of more than 105.594 million pesos. An apartment in the private Bocagrande sector of Cartagena and three boats belonging to this company were seized: Matilda, Blas de Lezo and Marinse I.
Also on the list There’s a jet-green Porsche Cayenne van worth 260 million pesos, affiliated with Exportécnicas SAS. According to the file, this company is registered in Bogota. This substance – on which precautionary measures predominated – would be used by the organization to obtain crude oil of questionable origin.
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Moreover 24 dump trucks and tankers were seized from Porsche. Also 3 plots of land in Tolima and a commercial establishment in Ibagué worth 6.173 million pesosamong others.
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