Ex-DAS official accepts 5-year jail sentence
A former sub-director of Colombian intelligence service DAS struck a deal with prosecutors and will go to jail for five years for the illegal wiretapping of Supreme Court magistrates, opposition…
A former sub-director of Colombian intelligence service DAS struck a deal with prosecutors and will go to jail for five years for the illegal wiretapping of Supreme Court magistrates, opposition…
The Colombian Supreme Court Wednesday sentenced former congressman Humberto de Jesus Builes Ortega to seven and a half years in jail for his ties to demobilized paramilitary leader Freddy Rendon…
A Cali municipal court ordered Tuesday that Anyela Moreno Oritz be remanded in custody while police investigate her suspected role in the FARC kidnapping of a Japanese citizen. Japanese citizen Masao…
The former head of counter-intelligence at Colombian security agency DAS, Jorge Alberto Lagos, will plead guilty of involvement in the illegal wiretapping of government critics in exchange for a reduced…
Colombian Congress will study a bill proposing that scandal-ridden security and intelligence agency DAS be liquidated and replaced with a new body. Interior and Justice Minister German Vargas Lleras announced…
A U.S. court handed down Tuesday a 29-year sentence to Colombian FARC operative Erminso Cuevas Cabrera, alias “Mincho,” for conspiring to import cocaine into the country. In April 2010, after…
Colombia, one of Latin America’s oldest democracies, is an excellent example of a country reclaimed from conflict and disorder by rule of law and criminal justice system reforms. Plagued by…
Three out of the four aides to former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe called to testifyover illegal wiretapping conducted by state security agency DAS have failed to answer prosecutors’ questions. Uribe’s former communications…
Colombian paramilitaries extradited to the U.S. are being concentrated into two jails, from which they will testify in Colombia’s Justice and Peace process, following a new agreement between the two…