Fiance of director of Colombia’s child welfare agency arrested on wedding day
Cristina Plazas, the director of Colombia’s child welfare agency, was supposed to get...
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Key Senator investigated for embezzling seized narco property
Colombia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the investigation of a key ally of President...
Colombia’s former drug asset director arrested for embezzling $13M
Court officials on Wednesday arrested the former director of Colombia’s state agency...
Lawyer resigns in Colombia’s drug agency ex-director trial
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...
Colombia’s former narcotics director sent to prison
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] in...
Former government aides profiting from Cali Cartel business
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 business of former Cali Cartel...
Uribe denies ‘influence peddling’ at national drugs enforcement agency
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 Barreras, who is being investigated...
Politicians accused of cashing in on Colombian narco-goods
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 a former...
18 congressmen investigated for drug agency irregularities
Colombia’s Supreme Court will investigate 18 former congressmen for irregularities found in the processing of seized assets by the National Drugs Agency (DNE), W Radio reported Thursday. Authorities are considering the...
Colombian drug enforcement agency to be dissolved in July: Govt
Colombia’s corrupt drug enforcement agency (DNE) is to be dissolved from July 1, announced interior and justice minister Tuesday. Interior and Justice Minister German Vargas Lleras said that it is expected that by next...
Supreme Court investigates 14 politicians for links to corrupt Colombian drug agency
The Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court has seized computers from DNE, the Colombian drug agency accused of abusing the control of confiscated mafia assets, to determine whether members of Congress were third party...
Colombia’s drug agency retains ‘corrupt’ official despite govt order
Colombian drug enforcement authorities have thus far failed to fully obey an order issued by Interior and Justice Minister German Vargas Lleras to remove a potentially corrupt manager from the scandal-racked National Narcotics...
