The election of Colombia’s new comptroller general, an untainted technocrat, brutally showed former President Alvaro Uribe he has no control over the coalition he is leading. Congress, with broad support…
Colombia’s outgoing comptroller general said Wednesday that his office found $4.8 billion (COP14.2 trillion) that got lost through corruption and financial mismanagement. In his assessment of his final year in…
Corrupt officials have embezzled more than $13 billion from Colombia’s regional budgets, according to the comptroller general. A program to feed poor children lost $16 million through corruption. Comptroller General…
Colombia’s outgoing Comptroller General has fled her country, claiming she is facing trumped up charges over alleged irregularities during her term as the country’s highest fiscal watchdog.
Colombia’s Comptroller General, has sought a new $150 million headquarters in central Bogota in an effort to end to the controversy over inflated costs and corruption that plagued his predecessor’s purchase of…
A Green Alliance Party congresswoman is pushing a blank vote in protest of the current nominees for Comptroller General, all of whom have been embroiled in corruption scandals, local radio reported Wednesday.
Large-scale misallocations of Colombia’s “forgotten territories” have caught the attention of the National Comptroller, who may exact millions in fines after an audit of the Colombian Institute for Rural Development…
Bogota’s district comptroller will investigate over 200 service contracts with a total value of almost $6 million signed by the administration of Bogota’s former mayor, Gustavo Petro, in January of…
A Bogota initiative designed to treat impoverished drug addicts in the Colombian capital has come under scrutiny from oversight bodies for mismanagement of public funds.