Former top Petro aide jailed amid corruption probe
A Bogota judge jailed the former councillor on regional issues of Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro over her alleged involvement in a corruption scandal at the disaster management unit UNGRD. The…
A Bogota judge jailed the former councillor on regional issues of Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro over her alleged involvement in a corruption scandal at the disaster management unit UNGRD. The…
The prosecution said Monday that it had reached a plea agreement with several corrupt former executives of Colombia’s disaster management agency UNGRD. In the deal, the former UNGRD executives and…
Colombia’s Supreme Court formally accused the former presidents of Congress of allegedly receiving bribes to secure their support for government reforms. The formal accusation against former Senate President Ivan Name…
President Gustavo Petro said Tuesday that a powerful company has become “the greatest danger to Colombia’s democracy.” The company, Thomas Greg & Sons (TGS), is currently trying to renew a…
Colombia’s constitutional court struck down key elements of a decree that put communities instead of private contractors in charge of infrastructure projects. The decision is a major blow to President…
The Office of Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said that its anti-corruption chief received a death threat. On social media platform X, the President’s Office published images of a funeral wreath…
The director of Colombia’s State Legal Defense Agency (ANDJE), Cesar Palomino, owned a company whose ship was caught transporting marihuana between Pacific ports twice, according to news website La Silla…
An arraignment judge jailed two former directors of Colombia’s disaster management agency UNGRD as they await their corruption trials. Former UNGRD director Olmedo Lopez and his former deputy, Sneyder Pinilla,…
Colombia may have lost more than $4.1 billion in royalty payments since 2017 because of irregularities in the outsourcing of development projects, the director of the National Planning Department (DNP)…