This seizure was reported by the Barranquilla woman less than a week after her sentence to almost 14 years in prison.
Photo: @aidavictoriam on Instagram
The content creator Aida Victoria Merlano said through her Instagram account that she was seized by the DIAN. According to her story, it happened a few days after her sentence was increased by the Colombian justice system to almost 14 years in prison for helping her mother, Aída Merlano Rebolledo, a former congresswoman sentenced for corruption, escape from prison. This legal mess is added to that of money laundering and illicit enrichment, for which the Prosecutor’s Office will take her to trial soon.
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What Aída Victoria Merlano said about the embargo
The Instagramer said that last Friday, March 22, a payment from Facebook arrived in her bank account that then disappeared, according to her, without prior notice. “On Friday I received a payment from Facebook and today it doesn’t appear. I call the bank and they tell me that I have an embargo from the DIAN (National Tax and Customs Directorate) of Barranquilla. “I did not receive any notification, they simply seized me for an alleged debt that I have,” said the young woman.
He also indicated that he contacted his legal team to find out about the problem and they reported to him that his accounts were in order. “Calling my accountant, calling my tax professional, calling my entire legal team, they sent me proof that I had paid everything. “I don’t know why they seized me,” he said.
To his complaint he added a screenshot of the movement history of his Bancolombia application, which shows a discount called “embargo debit”, registered this Tuesday, March 26. “That they condemn me on Thursday and that they seize me today for a non-existent debt, it is just causality,” he added sarcastically in the Instagram story, where he has not provided more details of the court order.
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Aída Victoria Merlano, accused of illicit enrichment
It should be remembered that the conviction for the escape of her mother Aída Merlano is not the only judicial mess that the content creator faces. The Prosecutor’s Office also announced that it will charge Merlano Manzaneda with the crimes of money laundering and illicit enrichment, since, apparently, the former congresswoman’s daughter has not been able to justify the origin of several assets that are in her name.
These crimes were going to be charged to him at a hearing on September 7, but it was postponed. The Prosecutor’s Office accuses her of helping to hide assets obtained illegally by her mother, after creating a fictitious company, which would have reached a net worth of 3.2 billion pesos, which she had no way of justifying and which would have been used in the former representative’s electoral campaign. .
Although the Colombian justice system has not announced that this was the reason for the embargo, the Barranquilla woman reiterates that she was not notified of this new judicial requirement. However, it could be a precautionary measure, which according to lawyer Juan Mendoza, from the Dret Legal firm, told Asunto Legales, “it is not necessary for the defendant to know that they requested measures against him.”
In addition to the embargo and the conviction for her mother’s escape, Aída Victoria Merlano has this case pending for illicit enrichment, for which confirmation of the trial, which was postponed since December of last year, is expected. For this last crime, she could be sentenced to another 6 to 10 years.
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