Medellin’s notoriously corrupt elite backed the city’s most powerful business giant after one of its foundations admitted it fraudulently sought a $2.8 million (COP10 billion) grant meant for poor children.…
Colombia’s second richest man, Jaime Gilinski, likes to avoid attention as the legitimacy of the country’s “nouveau riche” is questionable. The banking mogul and his family over the past decades…
Colombia’s industry watchdog slapped the banking and construction corporation of the country’s richest man with a major fine, claiming its corruption violated free market principles. The fine imposed on Luis…
Campaign financing and political favors have given organized crime groups almost unprecedented access to government, including the administration of President Ivan Duque. Through corruption and infiltration, Colombia’s mafias have made…
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque said Wednesday that he will ask an allegedly criminal former chief prosecutor facing treason charges to join “some commissions” on fighting crime. In an interview with…
Colombia’s police chief is in deep trouble over a series of corruption scandals and evidence of widespread ties between police and drug traffickers. The mounting corruption scandals has caught the…
The coalition of Colombia’s President Ivan Duque lost another seat in the Senate after the arrest of a senator on bribery charges. Senator Eduardo Pulgar of the center-right U Party…
US officials allegedly intimidated one of Colombia’s top counternarcotics prosecutors who was investigating their alleged bribery of mafia associates, newspaper El Espectador reported on Saturday. The officials, Tarek Rashidi and…
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque on Monday appointed the heir of a convicted land thief and terrorism sponsor as Vice-Minister for the Promotion of Justice, further strengthening ties with organized crime.…