Colombia’s prosecution is trying to recover $478 million that got lost in corruption. This is the equivalent of less than 3% of what allegedly was embezzled, extorted or misallocated by state officials…
Colombia’s former chief of the National Police will be charged for corruption after he allegedly tried to prevent the arrest of associates during an embezzlement investigation, according to the country’s prosecution. The corruption charges are…
Rescuers say they’re searching for survivors in the wreckage of a half-built structure that collapsed in the northern Colombian city of Cartagena and killed at least 10 people. National emergency…
More than a year after Colombia’s biggest corruption scandal ever broke, the prosecution indicted eight former executives of disgraced state oil refinery Reficar on corruption charges. Curiously, according to Prosecutor General Nestor Humberto…
A corruption risk survey carried out at 167 government institutions showed that all these state bodies are between medium and extreme risk of corruption. The Transparency Index of Public Entities set up…
The company of Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos’ former campaign manager, who admitted to accepting illegal campaign funds, has been granted $17.5 million in government contracts since Santos’ stained 2010 election. This was…
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos has been called for questioning by the country’s electoral authority CNE over illegal funding of his 2014 election campaign by Brazilian engineering firm Odebrecht, local media reported Thursday. The…
Brazilian engineering form did not just illegally finance Colombian presidential campaigns, state officials and congressmen, its CEO Marcelo Odebrecht on Monday admitted to also paying illegal armed groups. In an interview with…
A conservative politician in the north of Colombia was allegedly linked to a record cocaine seizure made last weekend by National Police, according to reports by El Tiempo newspaper on Sunday.…