They accuse those close to Víctor Carranza for appropriating thousands of hectares of vacant land

“It is presumed that the negotiation took place taking advantage of the norm that empowered the former Colombian Institute of Agrarian Reform (Incora), today the National Land Agency (ANT), to deliver vacant land to inhabitants of the region who did not have it, with the commitment not to market them before 15 years,” the Prosecutor’s Office said in a press release.

To keep those more than 20,000 hectares Lawyer Alonso managed to have 27 people, including employees and acquaintances of Víctor Carranza, recognized as local inhabitants to give them the land, which 12 years later, in 2007, they sold.

The investigation determined that several of the beneficiaries did not reside or have an economic activity in the region, and false powers of attorney were used, many of them signed by dead people, documents with illegible fingerprints, among other irregularities.

These maneuvers would have allowed the precious stone dealer Jaime Rojas Garcíawho would also have participated in the plot, will increase his unjustified assets by more than 6,000 million pesos.

According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the people who bought the land in 2007 were from the close circle of the Boyacá emerald dealer: a veterinarian, a bodyguard and three emerald dealers, and the Prosecutor’s Office indicated that the agreed value was 743 million pesos.

The investigators also found that the procedures for the allocation of vacant land, the enclosure of the land, its deed, registration and subsequent sale were carried out in a notary office in Villavicencio (Meta) and in public records in Puerto Gaitán.

The Prosecutor’s Office maintained that there is evidence that Rojas García, who along with Fernandel Alonso, also participated in the negotiation. They were charged as possible perpetrators of the crimes of procedural fraud, illicit enrichment and aggravated criminal conspiracy.

Lawyer Alonso did not accept the crimes they accused him of, and The merchant Rojas was absent from the indictment hearing without commenting on the charges against him, for which the Prosecutor’s Office opened a new criminal case against him for the crime of preventing or disturbing the holding of public hearings.

On the other hand, it was reported that the Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the apparent participation in these acts of corruption of several employees of a notary office in Villavicencio (Meta) who would have endorsed the procedures that allowed The lands were irregularly used for more than 20 years, until February 2015, when the administrative acts that granted the allocation and possession of the vacant lands were annulled.

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