Colombian police will investigate Italian drug-trafficker Giorgio Sale’s possible connections with past criminal cases in the country, Caracol Radio reported Thursday. A prosecutor from the money laundering unit is looking for…
A former paramilitary commander was sentenced to 22 years in jail on Thursday for the kidnapping, torture, and disappearance of a mayor in 2003. Edilson Cifuentes Hernandez, alias “Richard,” former…
The assumed dead Vicente Castaño on Thursday was sentenced in absentia for the murder of his brother ex-AUC leader Carlos Castaño Gil. A Bogota court sentenced Jose Vicente Castaño alias…
Colombia’s Supreme Court has ordered investigations to be opened against some 60 soldiers, policemen, politicians and prosecutors after testimony by the extradited drug trafficker, Juan Carlos “El Tuso” Sierra implicated…
A Colombian judge rules that the 2001 paramilitary massacre of 31 civilians in the town of Chengue, north Colombia, was a “crime against humanity” and orders the decade-old case reopened.…
An ex-paramilitary fighter has claimed that part of his former group’s funding came from the looting of emerald mines in the department of Boyaca with the full knowledge of the…
Thirteen local politicians in Uraba, northern Colombia, are charged with having had ties to the Elmer Cardenas bloc of demobilized paramilitary organization the AUC, newspaper El Espectador reported Monday. The demobilized…
State officials will investigate claims of bribery and paramilitary involvement in the election of former Prosecutor General Mario Iguaran. A report in newspaper El Espectador states that Current Prosecutor General…
Colombia’s Supreme Court is sending an investigation team carry out raids on several locations in Bogota in pursuit of politicians who have collaborated with paramilitaries, newspaper El Espectador reported Thursday.…