Land registry to be overhauled for helping land grab
Colombia plans to reform the body that oversees the country’s notary and registry offices, due to findings that these organizations helped steal land from rural farmers. Minister of the Interior…
Colombia plans to reform the body that oversees the country’s notary and registry offices, due to findings that these organizations helped steal land from rural farmers. Minister of the Interior…
German Olano and Miguel Angel Moralesrussi have been expelled from the Colombian Liberal Party after investigations finished into allegations of improper conduct relating to public procurement contracts in Bogota, W…
Colombia’s Supreme Court has opened a corruption investigation against the former president of the House of Representatives, local media reported Wednesday. It is the third time that Partido de la…
Colombia’s Prosecuter General’s Office has filed charges against hospital executives in the north Colombian city of Valledupar for allegedly collaborating with now-demobilized paramilitary organization the AUC. Angel Elieson Maya Daza,…
Colombia’s Inspector General Alejandro Ordoñez asked Congress Wednesday to extend the statute of limitations in corruption cases against public officials from five years to eight, reported El Espectador. In a discussion during…
Authorities arrest a former mayor of Soacha, a municipality near Bogota, who has been convicted of illegally making local government contracts, Colombian news media reported Tuesday. Agents from the Technical…
The Interior and Justice Ministry has announced that an ex-guerrilla implicated in the alleged fake demobilization of a FARC front in 2006 is no longer the government’s “Manager of Peace.”…
Colombia’s Supreme Court Tuesday denied allegations its judges were bribed by demobilized paramilitary organization AUC to elect Mario Iguaran as prosecutor general in 2005. Supreme Court President Camilo Tarquino called the…
Colombia’s inspector general has dismissed the appeal of a former senator convicted of corruption, meaning that he will continue to be banned from holding public office for 15 years, El…