Final forfeiture ruling: Bogotá court confiscates six assets of Charlie Zaa
Bogotá's Superior Court upheld the forfeiture of six properties belonging to Colombian singer Charlie Zaa, valued at more than 45 billion pesos.
Court confirms confiscation of assets from Colombian singer Charlie Zaa
Bogotá's Superior Court, in its Justice and Peace Chamber, upheld the forfeiture of six properties belonging to Colombian singer Charlie Zaa, valued together at more than 45 billion pesos, reported zonacero.com.
The assets include two commercial premises in the Oasis Shopping Centre in Girardot, two plots of land in the municipalities of Guamo and Lérida, Hacienda Guamal in San Luis, and a plot with improvements also located in Girardot. The highest-value property is one of the commercial premises at the Oasis Shopping Centre, valued at 15.840 billion pesos, according to the Court's decision.
The properties had been seized by the Office of the Attorney General in July of this year for forfeiture purposes.
The measure is based on the alleged financing of these assets with funds from the defunct Tolima Bloc of the United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC). The investigation indicates that Diego José Martínez Goyeneche, alias 'Daniel', a former commander of that paramilitary structure, allegedly resorted to third parties to move money and invest in real estate with the purpose of concealing the illicit origin of the funds.
The Office of the Attorney General indicated that Charlie Zaa may have been one of the beneficiaries of this scheme, and that the properties could have been subsequently used for money laundering.
Charlie Zaa, the stage name of Carlos Alberto Sánchez Ramírez, is one of Colombia's most recognised bolero interpreters. He achieved continental prominence in the late 1990s with albums such as Sentimientos and Un segundo sentimiento, which recorded sales of millions of copies across Latin America.
The singer denied the Attorney General's imputations at the time and asserted that the allegations against him do not correspond to reality.
Source: Google News CO — Bogotá