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Felipe SALAZAR, Appellant, v. In re FORFEITURE OF $182,289.00 IN U.S. CURRENCY, Appellee.
    No. 98-1782
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    Feb. 3, 1999.
    Rehearing Denied April 7, 1999.
    Clayton R. Kaeiser, Miami, for appellant.
    
      Katherine Fernandez Rundle, State Attorney, and Israel Reyes, Assistant State Attorney; Robert S. Glazier, Miami, for appellee.
    Before JORGENSON, LEVY, and FLETCHER, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

Felipe Salazar appeals a nonfinal order finding that he lacks standing to challenge an adversarial preliminary hearing in a civil forfeiture action. For the following reasons, we affirm.

After the police seized the property, Salazar signed a sworn statement relinquishing all rights, title, and interest in the property. However, in an effort to establish standing at the preliminary hearing, Salazar merely stated, “Yes, it was my [property].” This conelu-sory statement did nothing to overcome the legal effect of Salazar’s relinquishment of rights and was insufficient to establish standing. See § 932.701(2)(e), Fla. Stat. (1997); Jaramillo v. City of Coral Gables, 719 So.2d 376 (Fla. 3d DCA 1998); Munoz v. City of Coral Gables, 695 So.2d 1283 (Fla. 3d DCA 1997).

Affirmed.