This is how they tracked down alias Julio, the hidden partner of powerful invisible bosses

However, when in Huelva began to ask about H-1 or ‘the Tsar’, Don Julio hid in Venezuela and began to transfer several of his assets in Colombia.
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“Figueroa had been followed for months. A series of sailboats had been identified in which the drugs were moved and then transshipped to ships that arrived in Huelva. By that time he already had a red notice from Interpol. But in the organization chart there are two others above him“an anti-mafia agent aware of the case told EL TIEMPO.

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TIME investigated and established that, in his eagerness to get off the radar of the authorities, ‘H-1’ began to ‘sell’ some of the properties without knowing that he was being listened to.
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However, he kept a luxurious Penthouse in the Menta Tower of the Riovivo Citadel, in Rionegro (Antioquia); a megalot known as ‘La Esperanza, in that same municipality; A luxurious house in the San Francisco residential complex, in Medellín, and an apartment in Ríonegro.
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In fact, the past On April 9, he was captured in his mansion in Rionegro, when he came to visit his family and friends to whom he would have transferred part of his fortune.​

One of those corporate movements – which for the Prosecutor’s Office was a concealment of part of his fortune – was registered on March 27, 2017 and involves a couple of close friends and a well-known restaurant chain. SushiMarket.

According to documents to which EL TIEMPO had access, Julio Andrés Murillo Figueroa, as a representative of Frutty di Mare SAS, That day, by way of sale and purchase, he transferred the real right of ownership of his participation in the restaurant chain to Jorge Enrique Arcila Agudelo.

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In addition to being a brother-in-law, this The latter appears as a founding partner and representative of the company Distrito Oriental SAS.

The transaction covered the Sushi Market Laureles stores, on circular 76 #39-09;
Sushi Market Palmagrande, at Cra 38 #18-101 Lc 170 and Sushi Market Truck, at Cra 39 #7-100.

In total, the transaction It amounted to 30 million pesos.

Currently, Sushi Market belongs to the company Oreltex ltda which was established on January 12, 2010 with 40 million pesos for Jorge Enrique Arcila Agudelo and Rosa Elvira Figueroa Arias. That company, in April 2024, reported 1,191 million pesos in assets.

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In total, 16 establishments currently operate, valued at 14 billion pesos, in Bello, Envigado, Rionegro, Medellín, Pereira, Cali and Bogotá. In addition, 20 assets and four companies were seized.

Those close to the case told ELTIEMPO that no one knew about the activities of ‘H-1’ and that the restaurant partners are third parties in good faith. But the mafia trail of the founding shareholder dates back to 2001.
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​Now they are going after their accomplices in Spain.