The Attorney General's Office disqualified 4 elected mayors and a dozen council members from municipalities in several departments across the country, newspaper El Espectador reported Wednesday.
The Attorney General nullified the registration of candidates for the October 2007 local elections and asked the Prosecutor General's office to investigate the politicians for "possible procedural fraud or other crime."
Also, a higher court in Bogotó ordered that those
dismissed return the money received during their campaigns to the National Electoral Council .
The disqualified
mayors are:
Hemel Sarrazola Jesus Leal, Antioquia,
Antioquia.
Jose Fernando Suarez Osoriao, San Jerónimo, Antioquia.
Ovid Mejía Marulanda, Maicao, Guajira.
Jorge Enrique Guáqueta, Suesca, Cundinamarca.
The disqualified Council members:
Javier de Jesús Orrego
Arango, Antioquia, Antioquia.
Jhon Fredy Gonzalez Ossa, Villavicencio, Meta
Libardo Enrique Barrios, Arjona, Bolivar.
Erney Adolfo Arango Vargas, Iquira, Huila.
Leonel Benitez
Jose Agudelo, Paratebueno, Cundinamarca.
Gerardine Chala Lopez, Medina, Cundinamarca.
Nestor Enrique Quintero, Puerto Escondido, Córdoba
Omar Linares Moreno, San Carlos
store, Target.
Carlos Arturo Londoño, Belén de Umbria,
Risaralda
Elquin Francineth Giraldo, Paujil, Caqueta
Victor
Manuel Rojas Jerez, Fortul, Arauca.
Cesar Mauricio Rodriguez, Chocó.
Disqualified members of local administrative boards:
Luis Miguel Gallego Ladino, local governing board of Manizales, Caldas.
Jhon Jairo Perez Estrada, local governing board of Santa Marta,
Magdalena.
