US considering asylum request for convicted ex-minister: Colombia Prosecutor General
Colombia´s Prosecutor General Office confirmed Friday that Andres Felipe filed an asylum request in Florida last month, local media reported.
Colombia´s Prosecutor General Office confirmed Friday that Andres Felipe filed an asylum request in Florida last month, local media reported.
Ex-Minister of Agriculture Andres Felipe Arias is currently in the United States seeking political asylum, according to Colombian media reports released Friday morning.
Colombia’s ex-Minister of Agriculture Andres Felipe Arias has been found guilty of embezzling state subsidies for poor farmers after a four-year court battle, Colombian media reported on Thursday.
Protesters in 22 cities around Colombia took to the streets in a “masked march” against corruption on Sunday. Colombian media reported hundreds of protesters assembled from Popayan to Cartagena, all…
A Colombian agricultural subsidy program, Agro Ingreso Seguro (AIS), which was accused of corruption last year, funded a Brazilian firm that fraudulently purchased 13,000 hectares of land, reports El Espectador.…
The AIS agricultural subsidy program, which was at the center of a corruption scandal last year, will restart in January 2011, Colombia’s Agriculture Minister Juan Camilo Restrepo said Tuesday. Restrepo claims that…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office wants the OAS to revoke the diplomatic immunity of officials suspected of involvement in the misallocation of government agricultural subsidies. The authorities accuse staff from the…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Tuesday called on President-elect Juan Manuel Santos’ incoming administration to defend the controversial agricultural subsidies program, known as AIS, “like lions,” LAFM reports. “The AIS…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office followed the Inspector General’s lead Friday by also opening an investigation into the former and current Agricultural Ministers’ role in the AIS subsidies scandal. This decision…