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…
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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…
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Colombia’s electoral authority CNE announced on Thursday it had opened a formal investigated into illegal funding of President Juan Manuel Santos’ 2010 election campaign by Brazilian engineering firm Odebrecht. The investigation…
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Tuesday acknowledged that his 2010 presidential campaign received “irregular funding” from Brazilian company Odebrecht but moved to dispel suggestions that he was aware it…
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Colombia’s opposition candidate for the 2018 presidential election “postponed” his announced candidacy on Wednesday after being implicated in a major bribery scandal. Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, the candidate for the Democratic Center party, has been…
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The main problem facing Colombian citizens today is not security or economic stability but in fact corruption, according to the results of a bimonthly poll released on Wednesday. 30% of…
The 2010 campaign of Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos, already investigated for receiving illegal funds from bribery-stained multinational Odebrecht, also received funds from an investment company that embezzled hundreds of millions of dollars, according…
With both the president and his opposition rival in the last elections implicated, the fallout from the Odebrecht corruption scandal in Colombia could cause an unexpected purge in Colombia’s corruption-ridden political…
Colombia’s government has begun termination of an $861 million contract to restore navigability of the Magdalena River that was led by Brazil’sOdebrecht, the government said on Wednesday. The decision was…
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