Colombia Army general resigns amid embezzlement scandal
A Colombian Army general implicated in revelations of widespread defense contracting embezzlement formally resigned Monday.
A Colombian Army general implicated in revelations of widespread defense contracting embezzlement formally resigned Monday.
Active and imprisoned military commanders have been embezzling millions of dollars from Colombia’s defense budget, weekly Semana reported on Sunday, further discrediting the armed forces that only two weeks ago…
The legal team of Alvaro Uribe on Thursday rejected claims Colombia’s former president’s electoral campaigns received funds from the now-defunct Norte del Valle cartel.
The incarcerated ex-head of the North Valley Cartel has issued formal testimony alleging that he helped finance the presidential campaigns of former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez, reported a national…
The jailed governor of La Guajira, Colombia’s most northern state, was barred from holding public office for 18 years on Wednesday over corruption allegations.
Authorities in northern Colombia on Thursday arrested a congressman on suspicion of having ties to now-defunct paramilitary group AUC. The detained politician is one of more than 140 sitting and…
The Prosecutor General’s Office has announced it will be investigating the transnational bribe of an Ecopetrol official and eight others allegedly involved with the scandal, Colombian media reported Monday.
US petroleum company PetroTiger Ltd is accused of having paid an official of Colombia’s state-run oil company Ecopetrol a $333,500 bribe to keep a $39.6 million oil-service contract with the…
Colombia’s ex-president Alvaro Uribe petitioned for a congressional criminal investigation of President Juan Manuel Santos Friday, accusing the president of granting government jobs to congress members aligned with his political…