US judge validates extradition treaty with Colombia
A US judge on Monday validated the country’s extradition treaty after it had been challenged by a fugitive former Colombian minister awaiting a 17-year prison sentence for corruption at home.…
A US judge on Monday validated the country’s extradition treaty after it had been challenged by a fugitive former Colombian minister awaiting a 17-year prison sentence for corruption at home.…
Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui bank has pulled $250 million in financing from Colombia’s Magdalena River navigability project, as majority stakeholder Odebrecht faces corruption charges, the Colombian government said on Tuesday. Odebrecht…
Colombia’s fiscal authority announced Tuesday that it will investigate oil refinery Reficar, center of the biggest corruption ignominy in the country’s history. Comptroller General Edgardo Maya declared that several contracts that exceeded USD $1…
A poll conducted among businessmen by the national businesses association ANDI concluded that there is widespread acceptance towards government corruption in Colombia. According to the poll, almost 71% of the 89…
Fallout from the corruption scandal in Colombia surrounding Odebrecht, Brazil’s largest engineering firm, continues as bribery allegations implicating numerous top politicians mount. As evidence mounted against him, a judge announced that…
Colombia police has arrested the former bodyguard of an ex-presidential candidate who was assassinated on board a domestic flight almost 27 years ago, reported El Tiempo newspaper. A former agent of the now-defunct intelligence…
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos proposed that all political campaigns be state-funded at the installation ceremony for a newly created electoral review body on Tuesday. Santos’ announcement is an attempt to…
The arrest of former senator Otto Bula on Saturday was the latest in a domino effect of falling political figures in Colombia as the bribery scandal surrounding Latin America’s largest engineering…
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos and his predecessor Alvaro Uribe are once again at loggerheads after Santos made accusations linking Uribe’s sons to an ongoing corruption investigation. In an interview with Caracol…