By Nelson Bocanegra
BOGOTA – Colombia has requested a forensic audit of a fund that manages belongings to compensate victims of the nation’s inside armed battle, as a result of irregularities associated to virtually 1,000 properties, as the federal government appears to be like to help thousands and thousands of individuals victimized by legal and insurgent teams.
The case, which issues the Victims’ Reparation Fund, follows one other by which Colombia’s lawyer normal’s workplace is investigating allegedly lacking belongings confiscated from drug traffickers and held by the Particular Property Society (SAE) which President Gustavo Petro plans to handover to farmers and ladies.
Property seized and held by the SAE are price some 25.7 trillion pesos ($5.6 billion). The variety of lacking belongings has not been confirmed.
The Victims’ Reparation Fund is charged with receiving items and properties seized from former far-right paramilitaries by the lawyer normal’s workplace, to hire or promote them to the general public, after which utilizing the ensuing funds to handle the wants of the battle’s 9 million victims.
Nevertheless, irregularities in regards to the administration of 932 of the fund’s 2,346 belongings – which embrace homes, farms and flats – have come to gentle, corresponding to renting properties for below $1 per thirty days, Patricia Tobon, the brand new director of the unit for complete consideration and reparation for victims, advised journalists.
Tobon didn't affirm the mixed price of the 932 affected properties.
“There’s an absence of lease contracts in some occupied properties, which makes it troublesome to determine the worth obtained for the property, the income generated,” Tobon stated, including that some have been occupied with out permission.
“After we seemed into the administration of the belongings, we discovered that background checks weren't carried out, … and at present we don’t know precisely who holds these belongings,” she stated.
An absence of accessible assets is the primary motive why simply 1 million victims have been compensated within the final 14 years, Tobon added.
Prosecutors shall be requested to research a minimum of 13 state entities by which irregularities have been discovered, stated Andres Idarraga, transparency secretary for the presidency.
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