A new committee will begin investigating cases of “yidispolitica” in the House of Representatives, reports Caracol.
There are three new investigators because those that were carrying out the process before were not reelected. The previous head of the committee, Edgar Eulises Torres, could not continue after accusations of “parapolitics.”
The term “Yidispolitica” refers to former Congresswoman Yidis Medina who was sentenced in 2009 for having received bribes to support Uribe’s bid for a second term in power.
The new members of the committee are Orlando Velandia, a Liberal from Bogota, German Alcides Blanco, Conservative from Antioquia, and Hernan Penagos of Partido de la U in Caldas.