Former congressman Hector Jose Ospina has been detained on charges of corruption, El Espectador reported Thursday.
Ospina was arrested in Bogota Thursday morning by agents from the Technical Investigation Team (CTI) of the prosecutor’s office in the north of Bogota, on orders of the Supreme Court of Justice.
According to an article from Radio Santa Fe, the arrest concerns alleged payments the former House representative for the Conservative Party made to subordinates in order to finance his political activity.
Among other things, writes El Espectador, charges against Ospina include allegedly offering approximately $157,000 to congressman Jose Antonio Mora to hand over his seat.
Ospina has been temporarily transferred to a prison cell at the Prosecutor General’s Office.