Retired General Mauricio Santoyo, who served as former President Alvaro Uribe‘s security chief, responded to drug trafficking charges filed by U.S. authorities Monday. A Virginia court charged Santoyo with drug trafficking after…
A U.S. prosecutor has filed drug trafficking charges against a retired Colombian police general who was former President Alvaro Uribe’s security chief, newspaper El Tiempo reports. According to the charges…
An Italian businessman detained in Bogota’s La Modelo prison pleaded his innocence to accusations that he laundered large amounts of money and had illegal financial links to a former paramilitary…
Several paramilitary leaders with knowledge of the alleged wiretapping of political officials by the former head of Colombia’s now-dismantled security agency and former President Alvaro Uribe’s chief of staff were…
More than 11,000 Colombian politicians, state officials, businessmen and citizens are facing accusations of being accomplices to paramilitary groups, said research group Verdad Abierta Thursday. “We asked the Prosecutor General’s…
A Bogota judge ordered five paramilitary leaders who are currently being held in the U.S. to testify in the murder trial of a former top official in Colombia’s Department of…
Colombia’s Supreme Court sentenced former congressman Mario Salomon Nader to seven and a half years in prison for his ties to paramilitary group the AUC. Nader was found responsible for…
Colombian rebel group the ELN claimed Monday that the “extreme right” is to blame for last Tuesday´s bombing in Bogota that targeted former minister Fernando Londoño and killed two people…
House Representative Ivan Cepeda asked Colombian authorities Friday to investigate former Vice President Francisco Santos for his alleged ties to paramilitaries. In a letter Cepeda requested the Prosecutor General’s Office…