Colombia’s Inspector General accused the already dismissed governor of Valle del Cauca of using government money to buy advertisement criticizing one of the department’s deputies.
According to the Inspector General’s Office, Governor Juan Carlos Abadia used $22 thousand of the department’s budget to place an ad in Cali newspaper El Pais in January 2009. In the advertisement, the governor attacked one of his political opponents in the assembly.
Abadia is already barred from holding public office for ten years for abusing his power in an attempt to support former Minister Andres Felipe Arias when the latter was attempting to become the Conservative Party’s candidate for the 2010 presidential elections.