The daughter of drug lord Pablo Escobar has been hit with a multi-million-pound tax on property she does not even own as the Colombian state seized it before she fled the country.

Manuela Escobar Henao, 37, is the daughter of Pablo Emilio Escobar, the most famous drug trafficker dubbed “the king of cocaine”.

Manuela and her family fled Colombia and lived in Argentina, changing her name to Juana Manuela Marroquin Santos. She left behind a fortune in property and valuables and is complaining that she is still being pursued over the debt despite not owning any of the items she is being taxed on.

She is the daughter of Pablo Escobar and his widow, Victoria Eugenia Henao, who previously said that it took her many years to realise she was living with a “psychopath”.

The Directorate of National Taxes and Customs, Dian, is still demanding millions in back taxes despite Manuela refusing, and she has twice tried and failed to have it overturned.

She claims that the case results from an income statement made erroneously in 2006. According to Santos, the mistake was made by an accountant who made a declaration of goods for material property and wealth she no longer has as it is was seized by the Colombian State.

But she still has to pay almost MXN 200 million (GBP 7.2 million) in taxes penalties. The fine was made up of a MXN-64-million (GBP 2.3 million) tax and a MXN-103-million (GBP-3.7-million) fine.

In the lawsuit by Santos demanding the payment request be cancelled, she said: “The 2006 income tax return was erroneously filed by an accountant in which he included gross and liquid equity of USD 5.4 million (GBP 4 million) made up of the assets that were subject to domain forfeiture in the years 1997, 2003 and 2004.

She said that she, the taxpayer, Mrs Marroquin Santos, had modified and made the corrections to the income statement. but that it was “ignored by the Tax Administration and the judicial offices.”

The result of the appeal is being awaited.