The attorneys of Colombia’s former education minister accused an opposition activist of harassment after he had asked the politician in New York why she had failed to appear at a…
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Colombia’s Supreme Court on Friday called President Juan Manuel Santos and 18 of his (former) ministers to testify over a bribery scandal involving Brazilian engineering firm Odebrecht. The request was…
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A senator of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos’ political party was arrested Thursday on charges he had accepted bribes from Brazilian engineering firm Odebrecht. Senator Bernardo Miguel Elias (U Party)…
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Colombia’s public prosecution has informed electoral authorities that it has concluded that the 2014 campaigns of both President Juan Manuel Santos and opposition candidate were illegally financed by Brazil’s disgraced…
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Illegal funds that entered Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos’ 2014 campaign were laundered by the brother of a former member of the now-defunct Cali Cartel, newspaper El Tiempo reported on Monday. The newspaper…
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Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos has been called for questioning by the country’s electoral authority CNE over illegal funding of his 2014 election campaign by Brazilian engineering firm Odebrecht, local media reported Thursday. The…
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Brazilian engineering form did not just illegally finance Colombian presidential campaigns, state officials and congressmen, its CEO Marcelo Odebrecht on Monday admitted to also paying illegal armed groups. In an interview with…
Colombian officials received $27 million in bribes from Brazilian engineering firm Odebrecht, more than double previously thought, as the company sought to win a road-building contract, Colombia’s prosecutor general said…
With the sentence “we put more than $1 million in the campaigns of [President Juan Manuel] Santos and [opposition candidate Oscar Ivan] Zuluaga,” the former Colombia director of engineering firm Odebrecht said…
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos between 2010 en 2011 granted contracts with a total value of $345,000 to the family business of his former campaign manager, who has admitted to funneling illegal…