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.…
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…
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…
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…
Colombia’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered to join cases of former ministers accused of bribing congressmen to approve a constitutional amendment needed for the 2006 reelection of former President Alvaro…
Former Colombian congresswoman Yidis Medina will be released from house arrest after having served three fifths of a four-year sentence for accepting bribes to vote in favor of the 2006…
Colombian former Congresswoman Yidis Medina, who has been serving jail time since 2010 for accepting a bribe, testified in court Monday after being charged with arranging a kidnapping-for-ransom plot. The…
The Colombian Supreme Court on Tuesday nullified the bribery charges against former Interior and Justice Minister Sabas Pretelt de la Vega, who is accused of having bribed members of Congress…
Former Interior Minister and Ambassador Sabas Pretelt de la Vega, accused of bribing members of Congress to re-elect ex-President Alvaro Uribe, will not face trial until the investigation is redone…