Handling the request of the Prosecutor 17° of the Anti-Narcotics and Maritime Interdiction Unit (in Spanish: UNAIM), Oscar Jerez Pineda, Jaime Jerez Galeano, Germán Quiroga Velasco and Constanza Cárdenas Duarte were sentenced to prison terms between 72 and 96 months by the Eighth Court of the specialized circuit of Bogotá for money laundering as figureheads […] Read complete news
Today, the bill granting extraordinary powers pro tempore to the President of the Republic of Colombia has been approved by Senate’s plenary session, in last debate, in order to modify the structure and the staff of the Office of the Attorney-General and to issue the regime of civil service and administrative career. This initiative is […] Read complete news
The bill to adopt Asset Forfeiture Code (in Spanish: Extinción de Dominio) presented by the Office of the Attorney-General of Colombia, last April, has passed first debate in the First Commission of the Colombian House of Representatives. The bill establishes a new regulation to have strong mechanisms enabling to pursue assets of illicit origin in […] Read complete news
Three individuals were ordered detained by First Penal Municipal Judge, acting as supervising Judge, in Tumaco (Nariño), while they await trial on narcotics charges. According to the Prosecutor’s Office, Víctor Alfonso Arroyo Angulo, Antonio Mina Gamboa and Orlando Moreno Salas were caught in flagrante delicto by members of the Technical Investigation Team (CTI) of the […] Read complete news
Edison Rodolfo Rojas, a/k/a Pichi, the ringleader of the Oficina de Envigado was ordered detained pending trial in a prison center by the Second Roving Criminal Court in Antioquia. He was charged with homicide of a bank official, who would have been killed by mistake. On August 10, 2008, Elkin Vladimir Rivera Gonzalez was shot […] Read complete news
The arguments presented by the Prosecutor’s Office at trial allowed the First Criminal Court of the Specialized Circuit of Valledupar (Cesar) to issue judgment of conviction against five soldiers for the offence of homicide of a protected person. The decision derives from the events occurred on June 14, 2008 at the hill Las Señoras in […] Read complete news
Gilberto Toro, director of the National Federation of Municipalities (Federación Nacional de Municipios ) was accused by the Office of the Attorney General of Colombia for aggravated theft and abuse of civil service. The action of the prosecuting agency is based on events occurred between 2002 and 2012, when Fedemunicipios kept 10 percent of the […] Read complete news
Eber Jhon Peñata Torres, a/k/a Guacharaco, alleged urban ringleader of the criminal gang Las Aguilas Negras (Black Eagles), was ordered detained pending trial in a prison center by the Second Criminal Municipal Court, acting as Supervising Court in Medellín (Antioquia), which admitted the request of the Prosecutor’s Office. Peñata Torres, who is a demobilized individual […] Read complete news
Before a Supervising Judge in Bucaramanga – Santander, a Prosecutor of the National Anti-Corruption Unit laid charges against former civil servants of the Mayor’s Office of the municipality of San Vicente de Chucurí, Santander and some contractors in the region for the offenses of embezzlement, contract without compliance with the legal requirements and forgery of […] Read complete news
Rafael Pérez Jubiz, former Director of Corporación Autónoma Regional del Atlantico (CAR) was sentenced to four years and two months in prison for embezzlement in favor of third parties, contract without compliance with legal requirements and breach of duty by the Sixth Deputy Criminal Court of the circuit of Barranquilla. Facts investigated by the Office […] Read complete news
