A judge (who has jurisdiction over this matter) in Villavicencio (Meta) delivered a guilty verdict against mayor of Paratebueno (Cundinamarca), Gabriel Antonio Martínez Cano and his wife, Blanca Nubia Morera, due to extortion offenses.
A sectional prosecutor belonging to the Unit on Crimes against Public Administration in Meta conducted this investigation based on complaints filed by victims who stated that the local authority between 2008 and 2011 asked people whom he helped to obtain a position in the Municipal Government, to give half of their salaries to his wife who was paying for a car.