The Inspector General’s Office asked the Supreme Court to extradite drug-trafficker Walid Makled to the U.S., not Venezuela, Caracol Radio reported Friday. Inspector General Alejandro Ordoñez said that based on…
Argentina’s Federal Court has indicted Colombian footballer Giovanni Hernandez for tax evasion during his time as a Colon de Santa Fe player, reported El Espectador Wednesday. The court also ordered…
An official from Colombia’s national prison authority INPEC was jailed for 22 years on Wednesday for extorting prison inmates and falsifying documents, El Espectador reported Wednesday. The official, Luis Enrique…
Six military officials were called to trial Tuesday for the case of an alleged “false positive” killing in 2007, Colombian media reported. The soldiers had been under investigation for the…
A man was arrested in Bogota after 12 years on the run for beating and biting a 2-year-old girl to death in 1998. Carlos Julio Giraldo Figueredo was arrested Wednesday…
Former presidential adviser Jose Obdulio Gaviria cited security concerns as the reason for his absence from his libel hearing on Tuesday. Gaviria, along with former Vice President Francisco Santos, is…
Former congresswoman Yidis Medina has been sentenced to four years and two months under house arrest for illegal enrichment. The Special Criminal Court in Bogota found Medina guilty of the…
Criminal charges against Venezuelan spin doctor J.J. Rendon, who was accused of threatening to smear a congressman with prostitute rumors, have been dropped by the Colombian Prosecutor General’s Office, RCN…
The government of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos presented a bill proposing a set of judicial reforms which aim to make the country’s justice system faster moving and more efficient.…