Colombia’s Prosecutor General ordered the investigation Thursday of a series of emails between retired military officers referencing the overthrow of current President Juan Manuel Santos. Eduardo Montealegre asked his office’s…
Colombian intelligence agents uncovered and dismantled an international human trafficking network, local media reported Monday. Colombia’s Technical Investigation Team (CTI), the investigatory branch of the Prosecutor General’s Office, captured two…
Colombian prosecutors captured eight people Thursday suspected of laundering an estimated $6.6 million of drug money. The arrest of the six men and two women, in Bogota and Cali, follows…
A post-mortem investigation has confirmed that a body discovered Thursday is that of kidnapped Colombian Sergeant Francisco Aldemar Franco Zamora, newspaper El Espectador reports. Investigators from the Prosecutor General’s Office…
Nine politicians, including three former mayors, are arrested for alleged links to paramilitaries in northwest Colombia, Colombian media reported Wednesday. Three former mayors, one former deputy, one demobilized paramilitary fighter,…
The Technical Investigation Team (CTI), the investigative branch of the Prosecutor General’s Office, issued 10 arrest warrants for electoral fraud in the 2010 election. Authorities have already arrested six of…
A 13.2 ton drug bust the Cartagena police announced in May turned out to actually be only 35.3 pounds. The single container of panela (a substance similar to brown…
A former official of the Social Security Institute (ISS) was sentenced to five years in prison for fraud and extortion, Colombia media reported Tuesday. Omar Rojas Niño was fraudulently contracted…
A soldier in southwest Colombia killed an officer and himself on Tuesday, Colombia media reports. Edgar Mauricio Narváez Bejarano, a soldier in the Army’s 9th Artillery Battalion, killed Corporal Cristian…