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Colombian authorities seize over
40 drug dealers' properties
Colombian authorities seized
more than 40 properties worth a
total of 16 million U.S. dollars
from drug traffickers, the
nation's Anti-Drug Police said
on Sunday.
Officers from the Police, the
Attorney General and the United
States' Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA) launched
joint operations from Thursday
to Saturday to seize the
properties.
The seizures included 15
buildings in the cities of San
Andres, Santa Marta,
Barranquilla, Rio Negro and Cali;
eight boats, two cars, eight
businesses and 240,000 U.S.
dollars in cash.
The National Narcotics
Directorate will remain in
charge of the goods while
paperwork is carried out, police
said.
Police said the goods were all
linked to the fugitive Colombian
drug- trafficker Fabio Ochoa
Vasco, also known as Kiko and
Carlos Mario, who inherited his
businesses from Pablo Escobar,
the world-famous Medellin Cartel
boss who died in 1993.
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