Criminal charges against former President Alvaro Uribe’s chief of staff and intelligence chief may be dropped if the Supreme Court elects a new prosecutor general. Prosecutor General Guillermo Mendoza told…
A Colombian drug trafficker who prosecutors say tried to buy a DC-8 jetliner and other large aircraft to smuggle cocaine was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday by…
Judicial authorities in Belgium formally opened an investigation into the alleged spying activities of Colombia’s intelligence agency DAS in the European country. Belgium opened the investigation in response to claims…
A former official of Colombia’s intelligence agency DAS accused of involvement in the wiretap scandal on Monday arranged a plea bargain with the Prosecutor General’s Office. The intelligence agency’s former…
Colombia’s Supreme Court approved the shortlist of candidates for the position of Prosecutor General, one and a half year after the original deadline. Following the court’s decision that the shortlist…
Victims of illegal wiretapping by Colombia’s state intelligence agency DAS on Monday sued former President Alvaro Uribe for crimes against humanity, as they say he is responsible for the scandal.…
Bernardo Moreno, chief of staff under former President Alvaro Uribe, on Monday announced that he would attend a court hearing where he will be charged with involvement in illegal wiretapping…
An independent “Truth Commission” will study the cases of 17,0000 demobilized paramilitaries after Colombia’s constitutional court sank the suspension of prosecution of the former AUC members, newspaper El Tiempo reported…
Former paramilitary leader Jorge Ivan Laverde, alias “El Iguano,” says fellow former paramilitary leaders are suspending all collaboration with Colombian justice after the Constitutional Court ruled that 17,000 fighters can…