Colombian congressmen Ivan Cepeda and German Navas asked Colombia’s Prosecutor General to investigate the judge who lifted the international arrest warrant for Colombia’s ex-peace commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo, said local media Monday.
Restrepo left Colombia earlier this year despite a pending investigation in to his involvement in a “false demobilization.” Retrepo is accused of working with a drug trafficker and a former guerrilla to pay a group of homeless people to train and act like guerrillas before surrendering to authorities.
Last month a Bogota judge lifted Restrepo’s international arrest warrant saying there was “insufficient merit” to jail him while awaiting trial.
Cepeda and Navas have asked the Prosecutor General to investigate the judge for the possible crimes of abuse of authority, omitting a crime, and perversion of justice.