A Colombian congressman demands one peso (= $0.000568) of the Colombian state to compensate losing his $12,500-a-month job for corruption. German Olano has sued the Inspector General’s Office for COP…
Ten officials from Colombia’s tax authority DIAN were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of embezzling billions of dollars from tax payers. El Tiempo reported earlier that day that Colombia’s Prosecutor General…
Five soldiers on trial for slaughtering the members of a household in central Colombia were found guilty and sentenced to 35-40 years in prison, reported Caracol Radio Tuesday. The Criminal Chamber…
Colombia’s Congress is delaying 1,100 cases against high-ranking government officials, said the minister of interior and justice on Monday. German Vargas Lleras proposed that the congressional Accusations Commission be streamlined…
A Colombian court sentenced a priest and former teacher to over seven years in prison for sexually abusing his 10-year-old student, reported the news site Terra Friday. An attorney at…
A circuit judge sentenced one officer and seven soldiers each to 60 years in prison on Wednesday for the murder of four farmers in Antioquia. In March 2006, the soldiers…
The Nule cousins’ court hearing was postponed for a third time Thursday because their lawyer took a trip out of the country. It was expected that the prosecutor general would…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Saturday he is responsible for the 2008 incursion into Ecuador to kill FARC commander “Raul Reyes” after an Ecuador court opened a murder trial…
A former army official was sentenced on Friday to 20 years in prison for the “false positive” killing of three civilians in northern Colombia in 2007, reported newspaper El Espectador.…