Colombia’s election authority CNE on Tuesday absolved opposition politician Oscar Ivan Zuluaga of charges his campaign received illegal campaign funds by Brazilian engineering form Odebrecht. The report of Judge Carlos Camargo…
Establishment candidate and Colombia’s former president German Vargas is reportedly collecting favors from state officials to obtain the signatures to run in the 2018 presidential election. According to Ibague-based paper…
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos on Tuesday called for a general election in Venezuela with foreign observers after opposition complaints of electoral fraud in last Sunday’s state elections. The demand…
Colombia’s prosecutor general has opened 156 corruption cases against politicians, judges and prosecutors since taking office in July last year, reported newspaper El Tiempo on Saturday. The newspaper did not…
Six year’s after Colombia’s government announced the construction of new prisons, this initiative is marred by corruption allegations and the failure to deliver two thirds of the promised prison cells.…
Newspaper El Tiempo’s Juan Gossain recently uncovered Colombia’s “first corruption scandal” in history, dating all the way back to 1602. The scandal unfolded in Santa Fe de Bogota, when the…
A Colombian senator wanted on charges he bribed the Supreme Court has surrendered to justice weeks after the high court ordered his arrest. Senator Musa Besaile (U Party), an ally…
Multiple top businessmen were arrested in Colombia Wednesday for alleged crimes of fraud and money laundering that came to light through investigations related to the “Panama Papers” scandal. Six business…
At least two Homeland Security agents took cash and prostitutes from Colombian crime lords in exchange for erasing their criminal records, according to the US Department of Justice (DOJ). In…