More than 11 billion pesos: these are the properties that seized from the missing kingpin of La Oficina

Alias 'One , two, trhee' was the new criminal affected by the extinction strategy of the Attorney General's Office, which imposed precautionary measures on 25 properties and buildings that he would have acquired with money from drug trafficking.

The Specialized Directorate for the Extinction of Domain Rights took control of 19 buildings, both urban and rural, 3 companies and 3 commercial establishments located in Medellín, Itagüí, Sabaneta, Bello and Girardota (Antioquia); and Tolú (Sucre).

Some were commercial premises, a parking lot, homes and two farms, one of them in the process of building a luxurious spa and another, a luxurious rest house, with a swimming pool. In total, all properties total more than 11 billion pesos, according to the authority.

“The investigation shows that these properties would belong to Nelson Eugenio Aristizábal, alias' One, Two, Three '; and to his son, Nelson David Aristizábal, who would have taken over the administration of his father's estate, a man appointed by the United States to integrate the criminal structure 'La Oficina' and send cocaine to that country,” said the Prosecutor's Office.

Alias One, two, three was an alleged prominent money launderer in Antioquia. According to the investigation carried out against him in 2009, he was able to launder up to 50 million dollars, revealed the newspaper El Tiempo at the time, through the acquisition of businesses such as hotels, shopping centers, petrol pumps and meat distributors.

These establishments were part of a company he created with his initials, called Investments and Services Neam, which would have been at the service of The Envigado Office to launder and receive money from drug trafficking to the United States.

The man would have disappeared due to a criminal finance struggle from a missing shipment that caused him an unpayable debt. The same members of La Oficina reportedly disappeared him in 2008, according to judicial investigations, and since that moment his whereabouts or that of his body are unknown. His son would have assumed control of the organization.

Aristizábal was listed in a file of the Court of the Southern District of La Florida, according to the newspaper El Colombiano, which indicates that he had administered a drug trafficking route that carried drugs from the Caribbean to Jamaica and then to Miami. I would have used it from 1997 to 2006.

In 2009, authorities captured seven members of the gang and subsequently extradited them to the United States, who had ties to One, Two, Three. At that time, the Prosecutor's Office seized 118 properties amounting to more than 60 billion pesos.

In this operation, articulated with the DEA and Interpol, alias Contador, Oscar Mauricio Henao Toro, was captured, who fell in Medellin. He spent seven years in prison in the United States for agreement on collaboration and acceptance of trafficking in more than 5 kilos of cocaine, when he returned to the country.

He settled in the capital of Antioquia as a merchant, until June 2021 when he was killed. According to the newspaper Q'hubo, he was in an exclusive restaurant in the city, talking to other people about investing in foreign exchange.

A man with his face covered entered the establishment and shot him, once in the forearm and once in the face, which were fatal, and he fled. It was the 200th homicide of that year in Medellin, including several criminal reckoning.

However, Henao Toro had already resolved his judicial situation and was carrying out business in the chemical industry, as a merchant, by the time his past found it.

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