300 extortionists were captured and some 71 anti-gang operations orchestrated by Colombia’s intelligence agency DAS, who delivered their annual balance report Wednesday. The balance was delivered by DAS director Felipe…
The comptroller of the oil-rich city of Barrancabermeja was arrested Monday on suspicion he had tried extorting the city’s mayor. The local anti-extortion and kidnapping unit of the police arrested…
Colombia’s Interior and Justice Minister claims that he was not investigated for “FARC-politics” because President Alvaro Uribe authorized his negotiation with the guerrillas. Minister Fabio Valencia Cossio answered questions posed…
David Murcia Guzman, the disgraced founder and head of the DMG corporation, was sentenced Wednesday by a Colombian court to 30 years and eight months in prison. This decision comes…
The Colombian Inspector General for Criminal Matters said Monday that the high level of corruption that threatens the state is no longer the work of individuals but of systematically organized…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office followed the Inspector General’s lead Friday by also opening an investigation into the former and current Agricultural Ministers’ role in the AIS subsidies scandal. This decision…
The Colombian Comptroller General’s (CG) office followed the Inspector General’s (IG) lead by also opening an investigation into former Agricultural Minister Felipe Arias’ alleged role in the AIS subsidies scandal…
Colombia’s Inspector General’s Office (IG) on Wednesday opened an investigation against former Agricultural Minister Arias regarding his alleged role in the AIS subsidies scandal. The IG opened the disciplinary investigation…
Statistics revealed Tuesday that some COP3.9 trillion embezzled through corruption in Colombia could have paid for 80,000 young Colombians to go to university. The statistics, revealed by Colombia’s Inspector General…