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.
Colombia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the investigation of a key ally of President Juan Manuel Santos in the Senate over the lawmaker’s alleged role in the embezzlement of seized…
An anonymous Medellin man has bought a diamond-encrusted watch once owned by notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar, as part of a government auction of two decades worth of goods seized…
Court officials on Wednesday arrested the former director of Colombia’s state agency responsible for distributing seized assets of drug traffickers for corruptly distributing the assets among friends.
The defense lawyer for convicted ex-drug agency director Omar Figueroa has resigned, reported Radio Caracol Monday. The report said defense lawyer Carlos Roberto Solorzano’s resignation caused Figueroa’s trial to be…
Former National Narcotics Directorate [DNE] Director Omar Figueroa has been transferred to prison, ending a period of house arrest, reported Colombian media Thursday Judge Alvaro Weiss Bautista said “putting [Figueroa]…
A pharmaceutical business of former Cali Cartel bosses is now in the hands of friends and aides of former and present government officials, Colombian news sources have revealed. The pharmaceutical…
Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has denied influencing the national drug agency to give land seized from traffickers to a church in Cali. At the disciplinary hearing of Senator Roy…
Fourteen Colombian politicians were accused on Tuesday of abusing their power to influence the national drugs enforcement agency, DNE. It’s alleged the suspects, which include former heads of Congress and…