‘Former Colombia minister admits to bribing congress to allow Uribe’s 2006 election’
Colombia’s imprisoned former health minister has admitted to bribing members of congress to...
Tag: Yidis Medina
Uribe’s head should roll too: Lawmaker convicted of congressional bribery
Former President Alvaro Uribe himself should be held legally responsible for the 2004 bribery of...
Former Uribe ministers sentenced to prison for bribing congress to allow 2006 reelection
Colombia’s Supreme Court on Wednesday sentenced two former ministers to six years and eight months...
Former ministers on trial over bribing lawmakers into allowing Uribe’s 2006 reelection
Two former ministers on Monday began defending themselves before Colombia’s Supreme Court...
Controversial former lawmaker absolved of kidnapping charges
A former Colombian lawmaker, convicted for accepting bribes to vote in favor of a constitutional...
Congress orders investigation of former ministers over Uribe reelection bribe
Colombia’s Congress on Tuesday ordered the Prosecutor General’s Office to investigate...
Former Colombia deputy appeals ex-congresswoman’s kidnapping sentence
A Colombian ex-deputy appealed the ruling that found former congresswoman Yidis Medina guilty on charges of kidnapping. According to local media, ex-deputy Sigifredo Lopez admitted that Medina was guilty of bribery and accepting...
Ex lawmaker to sue government over wiretap scandal
Ex Colombian Congressman Yidis Medina is to sue the government for over $4.5 million, claiming to be the victim of wiretapping, local media sources reported. Colombian newspaper El Espectador reported that the ex-congresswomen,...
Uribe lawyer rejects lawmaker investigating bribery
The lawyer defending Alvaro Uribe in a scandal involving the bribery of congressmen to assure the former president’s 2006 reelection on Tuesday challenged the congressman in charge of the investigation. Defense lawyer...
Congress opens criminal investigation of Uribe over reelection bribery
Colombia’s Congress on Tuesday opened a formal investigation into former President Alvaro Uribe over the 2004 bribery of congressmen to vote in favor of a constitutional amendment allowing the former head of state to run...
Bribery case against ex-president Uribe reopened
A new investigator has been appointed to decide whether or not to formally press charges against ex-president Alvaro Uribe in a scandal involving congress members taking bribes in exchange for support of his re-election in 2006....
Former Colombian congresswoman sentenced to 32 years
Colombia’s disgraced former Congresswoman Yidis Medina has been sentenced to 32 years for kidnapping, according to a press release from the Prosecutor General’s Office on Friday. The court found Medina guilty of the...
