Colombia’s Supreme Court detained a senator for allegedly engaging in real estate and money laundering deals with drug traffickers.
Early on Tuesday, the Supreme Court placed Dilian Francisca Toro under house arrest. The court later order Francisca be moved to a local Bogota prison.
According to the court’s reports, documents and testimonies indicated it was “highly probable” that the senator bought several houses in 2005 belonging to high-ranking members of the now-defunct Cali cartel as well as property belonging to a now-extradited drug trafficker had been bought by Toro and her husband.
Francisca has so far denied the accusations.