Colombia closes ‘influence peddling’ case against congresswoman

Colombia’s Supreme Court closed its investigation Wednesday against congresswoman Lucero Cortes for allegedly trying to influence a judge.

Cortes’ faith that justice system would ultimately prover her innocence came true when the Criminal Chamber of the High Court found no evidence linking her to allegedly paying-off judges of the Constitutional Court over a case against her husband, businessman Manuel Rincon Guevara.

The complaint against Cortes was lodged by a lawyer that worked with her husband who said she had paid $78,000 favoring her husband.

The congresswoman had been under house arrest since late April prior to the ruling.

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