Colombia’s Supreme Court sentenced a former Constitutional Court president to six and a half years in prison on Wednesday for allegedly asking a $150,000 (COP500 million) bribe from an oil…
Colombia’s former President Juan Manuel Santos on Wednesday denied having received illegal campaign funding from Brazilian engineering firm Odebrecht in 2014. The president appeared at a hearing of the National…
Both Colombia’s largest banking conglomerate, Grupo Aval, and Brazilian engineering firm Odebrecht took part in bribery, according to the businessman who admitted to moving the bribes. Witness Eduardo Zambrano confirmed…
A growing number of Colombia’s inhabitants do not consider their country democratic, statistics agency DANE said. According to a survey, only 23.8% of Colombians who are older than 18 consider…
Almost immediately after President Ivan Duque announced a Chinese consortium would construct Bogota’s metro system, the comptroller general’s office said it may suspend the project over corruption fears. According to…
The director of Colombia’s prison authority and the director of Bogota’s largest prison for women were sacked on Wednesday after the mouth-dropping prison break of a congresswoman. The escape of…
The political dynasty that has controlled Colombia’s port city Cartagena as if it were family property is in trouble after the family patriarch was recorded explaining how to get rich…
Colombia’s government may have lost billions of dollars after Portuguese engineering firm Mota-Engil backed out of a deal to upgrade and construct 248 schools after delivering only 17. Education Minister…
Colombia’s government is in trouble over its ties to corrupt banking conglomerate Grupo Aval, which took part in the bribery practices of Brazilian engineering firm Odebrecht. Vice-President Marta Lucia Ramirez…