Colombia’s prosecutor general’s office dealt a blow to the Aguilar family, one of the country’s elites that have accumulated political power through corruption and extreme violence. Hugo Aguilar, the former…
Colombia’s supreme court opened a preliminary investigation against more than 150 politicians and government officials who are accused of bartering political support for government contracts. The court had been sitting…
Medellin’s prosecution reportedly agreed to a 33-month prison sentence for the city’s former security secretary who was accused of ties to local crime syndicate La Oficina de Envigado. Former Secretary Gustavo…
Colombia presidential candidate German Vargas is not doing well in the polls, but that’s hardly relevant. A network of powerful regional elites is reportedly helping him mobilize voters. Vargas has…
The key witness in the case against the top officials in Colombia’s judicial and legislative branches has been moved to an undisclosed location after suffering a poisoning attempt and a…
Colombia’s industry regulator ordered seven private security firms to return millions of dollars to the government after finding the companies had been fixing prices for years. The corruption scandal that…
Colombia’s troubled public healthcare system lost $160 million as a result of fraud in 2017 alone, prosecution officials told newspaper El Tiempo. The newspaper reported that authorities have uncovered 18 networks…
A “human error” spurred the controversial ruling by Colombia’s Supreme Court that ordered a business magazine to reveal confidential information that led to a story on the “questionable behavior” of…
Health contractors in northern Colombia embezzled tens of millions of dollars by funding expensive medicine for ghost patients, the country’s inspector general said Tuesday. The country’s Inspector General found that…