Former Colombia congressman sent to prison for 10 years over ties to death squads
A former Colombian congressman was sentenced to 10 years in prison for using far-right paramilitary death squads to get elected into Congress.
A former Colombian congressman was sentenced to 10 years in prison for using far-right paramilitary death squads to get elected into Congress.
Global soccer federation FIFA wants the former president of Colombia’s Soccer Federation to return $517,000 he admittedly received through bribery and fraud.
Years after being forced to leave office in one of the biggest corruption scandals in the history of Colombia’s capital, former Bogota mayor, Samuel Moreno, was convicted for corruption.
While the country is going through the worst energy crisis since the 1990s, Colombia’s mining minister resigned on Monday after he was charged with corruption.
The ethics committee of international soccer organization FIFA has asked for a lifetime suspension of Colombia’s former soccer chief who has admitted to fraud.
Authorities in Bogota arrested 14 policemen on drug dealing charges. According to the the prosecution, the officers and patrolmen offered protection to drug dealers in Colombia’s capital’s most notorious drug district.
Cristina Plazas, the director of Colombia’s child welfare agency, was supposed to get married on Friday, but didn’t because her fiance spent the intended wedding day in custody on corruption charges.
In spite of government promises to tackle widespread corruption, the country has made no improvements and continues to rank in the lower half of Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index.
Some 350 mayors and seven governors who took office on January 1 are facing criminal investigations by Colombia’s public prosecution, the office said in a report.