Colombia’s Supreme Court on Thursday said that demobilized paramilitaries should not be extradited until they have participated in the Justice and Peace process, which involves confessing to human rights abuses…
The former intelligence director of DAS, Jorge Lagos, told Colombia’s Supreme Court on Monday that under the management of Jorge Noguera the government security agency had sent letters designed to…
Former DAS official Rafael Garcia, who last year accused the security agency of spying on the Venezuelan government, has announced that he will co-operate in the justice procedures of “a…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office (PG) is in an “emergency situation,” as a court order forces it to replace 2,000 employees in two weeks. According to acting Prosecutor General Guillermo Mendoza,…
Demobilized paramilitary leader Libardo Duarte, alias “Ban Ban,” told Colombia’s Supreme Court that he had personally taken large sums of money to the Prosecutor General’s headquarters in Bogota, reported Caracol…
Colombia’s Supreme Court was for the second time forced to postpone election of a new prosecutor general, reported El Espectador on Thursday. After three hours of deliberation by the court…
Former Colombian senator Vicente Blel was found guilty of corruption and sentenced to seven years in prison by the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Blel was arrested in April 2008 for…
The Supreme Court of Justice sentenced former Tolima Congressman Gonzalo Garica to 7.5 years in jail for his ties to paramilitary groups while in office. Garcia was involved with the…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe proposed a new candidate for the position of the country’s Prosecutor General, four months after the last elected Prosecutor General left office. The Supreme Court has…