Colombia’s former constitutional court president isn’t just any criminal; he was sentenced over land theft while already in prison for corruption. Former magistrate Jorge Pretelt may not have made it…
Colombia’s Supreme Court sentenced a former Constitutional Court president to six and a half years in prison on Wednesday for allegedly asking a $150,000 (COP500 million) bribe from an oil…
In a historic move, Colombia’s congress lifted the immunity and suspended a sitting constitutional court judge who had become embroiled in a bribery scandal. Never since Colombia’s 1991 constitution came into force did…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Thursday asked the former president of the country’s constitutional court to resign “for the dignity of justice” amid one of the country’s most high-profile…
Colombia’s public prosecution opened four criminal cases against 13 top officials for allegedly obstructing a corruption investigation against the president of the Constitutional Court.
Confidential documents relating to Colombia’s constitutional court president were distributed among congressmen on Thursday in an apparent attempt to impede the lawmakers from investigating the top judge who is accused of corruption.
The president of Colombia’s Constitutional Court has filed a corruption complaint against his predecessor in the midst of allegations against his own questionable behavior, local media reported.
The president of Colombia’s Constitutional Court — already in trouble over bribery allegations — has also been linked to paramilitary violence after investigators found that land he owns had been stolen from displaced…
The President of Colombia’s constitutional court returned to work on Thursday in spite of being at the center of the court’s biggest corruption scandal since its inception in 1991.