The president of Colombia’s social security program issued arrest warrants for 30 individuals accused of extorting as much as $1.13 billion from social security. Silvia Elena Ramirez, who directs the…
Thousands of indigenous Colombians have been given voter cards with humiliating names, El Espectador reported. Voter cards with names like “Tarzan,” “clown,” “pint-size,” “gorilla,” and “marijuana” have been given to…
Colombian authorities have begun investigating possible new developments in the country’s major health care scandal regarding fraudulent medical assistance applications, W Radio reported Thursday. A special investigation team from the…
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…
Latin American actors have reported being scammed in Bogota by a producer who created a fraudulent program to promote telenovelas, RCN Television reported. Producer Daniel Ferrer apparently contacted various Latin…
Thirty of Colombia’s 32 departments filed complaints of voter tampering and “transhumance,” reported Caracol Radio Tuesday. The only two departments that have not detected election fraud are San Andreas and Providencia,…
More than 1,000 complaints of voter tampering were announced before the Electoral Monitoring Committee and the Ministry of Interior and Justice. Colombia’s National Electoral Registry announced 1,000 complaints from voters…
Authorities have arrested three members of a criminal gang that impersonated military personnel in order to fraudulently take out money from Bogota banks, newspaper El Espectador reported Thursday. In a…
Ex-beauty queen said she was “manipulated” by her ex-boyfriend which led to her involvment in the AIS agricultural subsidy embezzlement scandal. Former beauty queen Valeria Dominguez, currently being investigated for…