The Executive Power has revoked the project of extinction of domain whose objective is to take away illegal assets to drug trafficking and organized crime.
According to Casa Presidencial, this agreement responds to the request of the legislators of the Commission that analyzes the strategy. The idea is presenting a new proposal that is being prepared and that would be convened on August 20th.
This temporary cancellation of the project is a way to support the Government’s efforts to work on the construction of a consensus text,”
said the Minister of the Presidency ai Agustín Castro.
The request was signed by legislators of the Special Commission: Gustavo Viales, Pablo Heriberto Abarca, Jorge Luis Fonseca, Víctor Morales, Jonathan Prendas, Eduardo Cruiskshank, and Zoila Rosa Volio.
Since the previous administration, the authorities of the Costa Rican Institute on Drugs, the Judicial Investigation Agency, the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Ministry of Security have promoted the urgency of fighting organized crime.
Last week, Minister Michael Soto Rojas called for the legisaltors to support the project. Simlarly, the director of the OIJ, Walter Espinoza, and the director of the ICD, Guillermo Araya, made the request before the Security and Drug Trafficking Commission.
A group of former Colombian prosecutors also called for the approval of the draft law of extinction of domain because, in their opinion, the country would become a haven for crime, because most countries in the region have already approved the legislation that seeks to take away the assets of people linked to drug trafficking or illicit activities.
If we press in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, crime phenomena tend to move to countries where the legal system is not strong. The extinction of domain becomes a necessity to be protected,”
said Gilmar Santander, a former Colombian prosecutor specializing in domain extinction.