Band of illegal sale of properties that operated in the Valley falls - Cali - Colombia

The operation against a gang known as ‘The Landlords’ was presented by the Prosecutor’s Office as a step to stop the illegal sale of properties in the capital of Valle del Cauca.

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The Prosecutor’s Office reported the captures of a network that was presumed to sell public and private ‘lots’in addition to creating invasions.

Among those arrested are a president of the Community Action Board and a justice of the peace.

César Lemos, Undersecretary for Access to Justice Services, said that the detainees were taking advantage of the illusion of families looking for their own homes.

Communes 15, 14 and 21, together with the villages of Navarro and La Buitrera, are surrounded by invasions. According to the authorities, one of these lots may be priced between 18 and 120 million pesos.

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For his part, the Secretary of Housing, Martha Liliana Hernandez, stressed that the operation is a support to avoid this type of scam. He recommended that when buying a property it is important to study titles and go to a notary to read the deed.

“To purchase land, it must be properly urbanized and have documentation. They can go to the Office of Public Instrumentsask for a certificate of tradition and there they can verify if they really are the owners of the land that is being sold”.

Hernandez also recommends making a checklist or going to the Ministry of Social Housing and Habitat of the capital of Cali, where they will be given the route to verify the legality of the properties before buying.

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They denounce illegal sale of capuchin monkey in Valle del Cauca - Cali - Colombia

As a call to the community to be alert to activities of illegal wildlife trade, Authorities of the Regional Autonomous Corporation of Valle del Cauca (CVC) denounced the finding of a primate of the species ‘cebus capucinus’, better known as ‘capuchin monkey’ or ‘white-faced’, in alleged humanization conditions illegally in a home.

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It is presumed that the sale of the species was for a value of 200,000 Colombian pesosby some foreign citizens who apparently delivered the wild animal to a citizen of the El Cerrito municipality, Valle del Cauca.

After receiving a complaint that indicated the alleged presence of the primate in a house in the municipality; CVC professionals, along with the police, arrived at the scene to verify the case, where they determined to seize the animal.

This disturbing primate has been noted as one of the most intelligent and lively creatures.

The primate remained under the protection of the environmental authority, after undergoing a preliminary review in the Center for the Care and Assessment of Wild Fauna (CAVF) San Emigdio, located in the municipality of Palmira, in the south of the department.

“He entered the Center in a state of dehydration, however, he has no present diseases, but he is at a high level of humanization. Everything indicates that he was kept as a pet,” said the CVC professionals.

Veterinary doctors also determined that the species is a juvenile femaleso it was decided to keep her in quarantine.

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The animal is a species with low risk of being threatened, so in several cases it is victim of illegal trade of wildlife to be the pet of people, who are unaware of the importance of not humanizing this type of primate species.

The white-faced capuchin is characterized by having a outstanding reproductive potentialflexibility in choosing their habitat and a greater ability to recover, compared to other larger monkey populations.

“The animal will remain in the CAVF to continue its readaptation process and the reaction it presents to the treatments that are going to be implemented will be evaluated,” the environmental officials indicated.

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The CVC authorities are reiterative in propagating campaigns to make the community aware of the wild animal adoptionwhich can impossibly be a pet inside a home.

“Each species fulfills an important ecological function that contributes to the stability of ecosystems and that is why it is important to protect them”

On average, a capuchin monkey’s diet includes fruits, seeds, insects, crustaceans, reptiles, bird eggs, and small mammals, including bats. Their gestation period lasts almost five months and they usually have one child per birth, and if it survives, its reproduction can be repeated in two years.

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The trafficking of wildlife for commercial purposes, for the adoption of the species or the human consumption of the meat, is a crime characterized as animal abuse.

Abuse is sanctioned by Law 1333 of 2009so that, if a legal action is taken against a person for the possession of a wildlife animal and the crime of illegal exploitation is declared, the order indicates that the accused can go to prison between 4 and 9 years.

For report any conduct that affects the environment, the CVC invites the community of Valle del Cauca to communicate through the hotline #550, in addition to downloading the mobile application that the corporation has enabled in the App Store or Google Play.

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Colombian Navy carries out an operation against illegal fishing in Nariño - Other Cities - Colombia

In three foreign-flagged vessels the Colombian Navy achieved the seizure of 1,665 kilograms of white fish, when they were sailing through the Colombian Pacific.

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In compliance with the campaign called Artemisa Naval aimed at the preservation and defense of water, biodiversity and natural resources, through the Rapid Reaction Unit of the Tumaco Coast Guard Station, in the Pacific coast of the department of Nariñothe three motorboats were detected at a distance of 110 nautical miles, when they were carrying out fishing tasks but irregularly.

When the crew members of the ARC ‘Punta Ardita’ coastal patrol boat proceeded to inspect the boats, they were surprised to find a total of 122 specimens of fish, including goldfish, swordfish and panderón.

But that was not all. In the same inspection they were able to establish that the captains of the boats they did not have the permits to carry out fishing activities and navigability in Colombian territory by the National Aquaculture and Fisheries Authority (AUNAP), as well as the Colombian Maritime General Directorate (DIMAR).

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In these circumstances, they incurred in the alleged crimes of illegal fishing and illegal use of natural resources, in accordance with the provisions of Law No. 2111 of July 29, 2021.

After reviewing and verifying the seized fishing resource, the three captains of the boats were captured and placed at the disposal of the Prosecutor’s Office General of the Nation, while fishing was in the hands of the AUNAP.

For their part, seven people who made up the crew of the three boats were handed over to Migration Colombia.

The National Navy also informed that to this advanced operation in the waters of the Nariño Pacific, the seizure of 180 kilograms of illegal fishing found aboard a foreign vessel on January 23 of this year, in which several species protected by the Colombian State were found, including the silky shark.

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The Colombian Navy said that through the Pacific Naval Force it will continue carrying out tasks to strengthen, protect and safeguard the fishing resources and maritime and river spaces of the Pacific Coast, with the purpose of counteracting crimes against activities that affect the marine and coastal environment.

At the same time, it will continue to support the environmental authorities in their search to maintain the conservation of the fishing resource, as strategic assets of the Nation.

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Low consumption of illegal cigarettes, but losses increase - Medellín - Colombia

Last year, the 32 departments of the country and the Capital District stopped receiving more than 750,000 million pesos for cigarette tax, destined for health, recreation and sports.

That’s what the study says Incidence of illegal cigarette consumption in Colombia 2021carried out by the firm Invamer for the National Federation of Departments (FND) and whose results have just been presented.

According to that study, in the last four years Colombia stopped collecting 2.4 billion pesos for the same reason, which represented a huge gap in departmental finances.

In the last four years, Colombia stopped collecting 2.4 billion pesos for this same concept.

The report indicates that despite the fact that the illegal consumption of cigarettes in Colombia fell by one percentage point, going from 34%, in 2020, to 33%, in 2021, the losses were greater. While in 2020 the regions stopped receiving 692,000 million pesos from cigarette tax, last year that figure increased to 750,000 million pesos.

“The number that was not received increased, although illegal consumption decreased, because the market grew,” says the Executive Director of the FND, Didier Tavera Amado. However, according to Tavera, due to the percentage point that consumption in the country decreased, “territorial entities have more than 59,000 million saved, which is equivalent to investing in the admission to school of 55,000 minors on average.”
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According to the report, which was conducted among people aged 18 to 64 from all socioeconomic strata, on average, each smoker consumes 7 illegal cigarettes a day in urban areas; in rural areas this consumption rises to 8 illegal cigarettes per day.

For this reason, according to the study, in the countryside the consumption of illegal cigarettes reaches 52% while in urban areas it is 27%.

On average, each smoker consumes 7 illegal cigarettes per day in urban areas; in rural areas this consumption rises to 8 illegal cigarettes per day.

In terms of stratum and age range, the main consumer of illegal cigarettes is between 55 and 64 years old, and belongs mostly to strata 1 and 2. In these strata, the per capita consumption of illegal cigarettes per week is 53 cigarettes, while strata 4, 5 and 6 reach 48 cigarettes.

The people who consume the most are those over 55 years of age, 60 cigarettes a week; while those between 18 and 24 consume almost 40 per week.

For Tavera, the good news that the study reveals is that the upward trend that had been marking the illegal market has been stopped: “Since 2016, the percentage of illegal cigarettes has been rising consistently: it went from 13 percent, in 2016, to 34 percent in 2020, and for 2021 that rise is stopped and it is possible to reduce even one point: 33 percent”.
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“The results of the study are encouraging, since they demonstrate the effectiveness of the strategies implemented at the national level, which have been segmented to meet the needs and characteristics of each of the regions,” he adds.

The Tax and Customs Police, Medellín Division, in coordination with the DIAN) and Revenues of Antioquia have carried out several anti-smuggling operations in the Aburrá Valley metropolitan area.

The results of the study show that among the departments in which the consumption of illegal cigarettes was reduced is Antioquia, which in 2020 was at the top.

The results of the study show that among the departments in which the consumption of illegal cigarettes was reduced is Antioquia, which in 2020 was at the top.

Antioquia went from 47 percent in consumption to 34 percent, a considerable decrease of 13 percent, which the FND and the Dian attribute to the so-called Antioquia Plan, which began in the middle of last year to combat the sale and consumption of cigarettes. smuggled.

Martín Orozco, general director of Invamer, assures that when the national 33 percent is disaggregated among the departments, the case of Antioquia stands out because it weighs a lot within the industry: it represents 5.4 percent. “It is a department where many cigarettes are consumed and therefore the improvements achieved there are reflected in the national figure,” he maintains.

The study showed that the departments with the highest rate of illegal cigarette consumption are La Guajira (94%), Cesar (85%), Magdalena (84%), Sucre (70%), Norte de Santander (68%), Bolívar ( 62%), Córdoba (58%), Atlántico (47%), Santander (35%), Tolima (35%), Chocó (34%), Guaviare (34%) and Antioquia (34%).

For their part, the regions that increased the most in the consumption of illegal cigarettes compared to 2020 were Bolívar (15%), Cesar (11%), Chocó (10%) and Risaralda (10%).
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The study also found that the illegal cigarette market tends to use more informal and high-traffic channels, such as neighborhood stores. In Colombia there are about 600,000 neighborhood stores.

According to the Invamer study, 82 percent of people who consume contraband cigarettes say they buy them in stores.

More than 6 million packs were seized in 2021

According to the DIAN, the main illegal cigarette brands available in Colombia are Rumba, from Uruguay; Carnival, from South Korea; Ultima, from India, and Marshal and Marble, from China.
In 2021, according to that entity, more than 6 million cigarette packs, 112 thousand bottles of liquor (750ml), and 709 thousand beers (350ml) were seized. This merchandise is commercially valued at more than 24 billion pesos. In 2022, more than 16,900 million pesos will be invested in the fight against smuggling.

Dismantled 4 illegal 'swimming pools' and neutralized 16 thousand gallons of crude oil in Nariño - Colombia

Tuesday, January 25, 2022

During 2021, the Directorate of Carabineros achieved the seizure and recovery of 3.6 million hydrocarbons

The National Police, through the Directorate of Carabineros and Rural Security, within the framework of the Institutional Strategy for the Protection of Natural Capital (EICAN), carried out an important intervention in the La Guayacana district of the municipality of Tumaco, Nariño, where we managed to dismantle 4 pools where illegally obtained fuel was stored, likewise, 4 Martians (steel tanks used for the illicit processing of hydrocarbons) were destroyed, and the neutralization of 16,072 gallons of crude oil stolen from the Transandino Pipeline.

In this area there is abundant vegetation and broken ground, a suitable place to build illegal refineries, which are supplied by the illicit valves that some people install in the Transandean Pipeline, one of the most important in the country considering its 306 kilometers of extension and its capacity to transport hydrocarbons (close to 85,000 barrels per day). The men of the Carabineros Directorate arrived to this point of difficult access to stop the illicit distillation of hydrocarbons in these refineries, from which it is estimated that 40% of the fuel is extracted for the illegal sale and processing of cocaine hydrochloride and the waste or surplus from this process, which is estimated at 60%, would be being dumped into water sources and onto the area’s topsoil, causing serious environmental damage to natural resources, especially species of fauna and flora. wild.

In this sense, the seizure of hydrocarbons has become a dynamic agent for illicit crops, which in turn has been one of the criminal phenomena that has contributed the most to deforestation in the department of Nariño, according to official figures. estimates that by the year 2020 in Nariño about 5 thousand hectares of forest were deforested, in that same year 30,751 hectares of illicit crops were reported.

So far in 2021, the Police Directorate has achieved the seizure and recovery of more than 3.6 million gallons of hydrocarbons in the department of Nariño, among these operational cases six coordinated operations stand out, focused on mitigating fuel theft of the Transandean Pipeline, contributing to the reduction of cocaine production, and contributing to the protection of natural resources and the economic heritage of the country. Likewise, 95 artisanal refineries, 103 “Martians” and 110 “swimming pools” have been destroyed.

On the other hand, in this area there is a convergence of the organized armed groups Los Contadores, the Oliver Sinisterra front and the residual group Urías Rondón, who finance the seizure of crude oil and obtain criminal income, which in this case exceeds 100 million pesos, with This type of operation and the capture of the members of these armed groups, not only affect the criminal income that sponsors related crimes such as homicide and forced displacement, but we also mitigate deforestation and environmental pollution caused by these crimes.

The Directorate of Carabineros of the National Police will continue to deploy all its operational capabilities to capture people who benefit from illegal mining, destroy natural resources, affect coexistence and citizen security, and the economic heritage of all Colombians.