The Office of the Attorney General opened investigations against four governors and a minister for alleged irregularities in contracts during the sanitary emergency
Inquiries are related to the governors of Arauca, Magdalena, Vichada and San Andrés; as well as the minister of agriculture and other public servants.
As a consequence of the pandemic caused by Covid-19, a strategy for surveillance and control named...
Office of the Attorney General supports decree on the release of inmates to control the spread of coronavirus
1. The Office of the Attorney General supports the effort of the National Government to face the crisis derived from the effects of the coronavirus and, in this sense, it endorses the issuance of Decree 546 of April 14, 2020...
Transparency for the emergency: Strategy of the three control entities
In a session held this afternoon between the Office of the Attorney General, the Office of the Comptroller General, and the Office of the Inspector Attorney General, which was coordinated by the heads of these institutions, a detailed review...
The Office of the Attorney General presents some considerations regarding a bill about the temporary release of prisoners by virtue of the sanitary emergency which seeks to protect the rights of inmates and general public
The Office of the Attorney General´s proposal is to establish accurate parameters about what population should be released from prisons: pregnant women, ill people and people who committed crimes that were penalized with prison terms which do not exceed...
The Office of the Attorney General, the Office of the Inspector General and the Office of the Comptroller General join their efforts to guarantee the appropriate management of public resources allocated to the sanitary emergency
Transparency for the emergency
The three institutions will intervene together to avoid irregularities in the contracting process of programs and services to overcome the sanitary emergency due to the coronavirus and will promptly investigate acts of corruption detected.
The sanitary emergency...
The Office of the Attorney General evaluates several hypotheses to determine who are the people responsible for the riots in La Modelo prison in Bogotá
In the framework of the riots that took place in La Modelo prison in Bogotá last Saturday, March 21st, the Office of the Attorney General is evaluating several hypotheses in order to bring before justice those who planned these disturbances and...
Under the leadership of the Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa, an investigation was launched into country´s prisons after riots
Office of the Attorney General launches investigation into the death of inmates after riots at La Modelo prison in Bogotá and Cómbita in Tunja (Boyacá).
Due to these unfortunate events in which 23 inmates of La Modelo prison in Bogotá were killed after...
Office of the Attorney General will prosecute people who take advantage of the pandemic to speculate about prices and stockpile food and medicines
Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa Delgado, calls for the solidarity of Colombians amid Coronavirus and preventive isolation.
The Office of the Attorney General encourages citizens to accept the call of the national authorities and respect decisions made by the national government...
The Office of the Attorney General and the Office of the Comptroller General announced forceful actions to refrain the effects of coronavirus in the country
The Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa Delgado, in a joint statement with the Comptroller General, Carlos Felipe Córdoba Larrarte; pointed out that with regard to the current public health reality generated by the coronavirus, it is time to act in...
Three former governors in Amazonas sent to prison for alleged acts of corruption
Former public servants under investigation for execution of contracts without compliance with legal requirements, ideological representation in document and misappropriation.
A magistrate of the Superior Court of Bogotá accepted the request made by the Office of the Attorney and ordered...