City mayors charged with embezzlement
The mayor and former mayor of Neiva, a town in the south-west Colombian Huila department, are under investigation for allegedly embezzling more than $1 million in oil royalties, Noticias Uno reported…
The mayor and former mayor of Neiva, a town in the south-west Colombian Huila department, are under investigation for allegedly embezzling more than $1 million in oil royalties, Noticias Uno reported…
Former Colombian Senator Oscar Suarez Mira was arrested Wednesday for alleged links to paramilitaries, reports Caracol Radio. Agents from Colombia’s Technical Investigation Team (CTI) captured Mira in Medellin, Colombia where…
A former president of Colombia’s Supreme Court demands more than $1 million from the government to compensate for illegal spying. Yesid Ramirez, who finished his eight-year term as Supreme Court…
The Prosecutor General’s Office will decide in 20 days whether to charge Uribe administration officials for illegally wiretapping government opponents, Caracol radio reported Tuesday. “I considered it important to raise…
Under the provisions of a new decree Colombia’s government will not offer pardons to guerrillas who have committed crimes against humanity, according to a government press release issued Monday. In…
Colombian prosecutors have appealed the Chile’s Supreme Court’s decision to deny their extradition request for a Chilean suspected of financing Colombia’s largest guerrilla group, FARC, reported newspaper La Semana Tuesday.…
There are 654 foreigners incarcerated in Colombia, according to a report by Colombia’s national prison authority INPEC, reported Spanish news agency EFE Monday. “In recent years the number of foreigners…
A Bogota court orders the Colombian church to reveal its records on a priest, resident in the U.S., who is accused of sexually abusing minors more than 40 years ago, newspaper…
Colombia’s former President Ernesto Samper and journalist Claudia Lopez meet in court on Monday over a column wherein Lopez fiercely criticized Samper. The former President sued the journalist for a…