Corruption allegations no impediment for Colombia’s new consul in Chicago
President Juan Manuel Santos appointed a former senator to serve as Colombia’s consul in Chicago in spite of allegations he took part in a major embezzlement scheme in Bogota.
President Juan Manuel Santos appointed a former senator to serve as Colombia’s consul in Chicago in spite of allegations he took part in a major embezzlement scheme in Bogota.
The governor of the central Colombian province of Cundinamarca resigned on Tuesday amid accusations he took part in a major corruption scandal in the capital Bogota.
Some 600 public Colombian officials are in jail over ties to the country’s most powerful neo-paramilitary group, the Urabeños, authorities revealed. Authorities arrested 44 public officials last week, highlighting the corruption within Colombia’s political…
The former mayor of the west Colombian port city of Buenaventura has been found guilty of embezzling tens of thousands of dollars of city funds and sentenced to 18 years and 9…
The private secretary of a Prosecutor General’s Office unit director was arrested in Bogota on Thursday after customs officials found she and four other suspects were trying to smuggle more than $1 million…
Colombia’s health minister announced a $540 million injection into the country’s health care system where mismanagement and corruption has left hospitals on the brink of bankruptcy.
Colombia’s political parties continue to support alleged and even convicted criminal politicians, according to a conflict-monitoring NGO.
Colombia’s government plans to carry out lie detector tests on senior civil servants who allocate contracts to private companies as it tries to clamp down on widespread corruption and embezzlement…
Colombia’s public prosecution opened four criminal cases against 13 top officials for allegedly obstructing a corruption investigation against the president of the Constitutional Court.