Attorney General

Binational plan between Colombia and Panamá to detect illegal resources of criminal organizations

Attorney General, Néstor Humberto Martínez Neira, and Attorney General of Panamá, Kenia I. Porcell D.,  signed an agreement aimed at strengthening bilateral relations to fight against organizations involved in drug trafficking, money laundering and create strategies to dismantle their financial structure.    

Office of the Attorney General carried out the total handing over of reports on conflict-related crimes to JEP

Six new reports were handed over to the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz JEP). In order to guarantee an effective prosecution of actions committed during the armed conflict in Colombia and avoid their repetition, the Office of the...

Press Release 192

Today, February 14, 2019, in Quito (Ecuador), the Binational Meeting between the Attorney General of Colombia, Néstor Humberto Martínez Neira, and the Interim  Attorney General of Ecuador, Ruth Jimena Palacios Brito, took place. The purpose was to renew the commitment...

Judicial Summit to strengthen bilateral cooperation ties between Colombia and United States

A Judicial Summit between the United States Acting Attorney General, Matthew Whitaker, and Attorney General in Colombia, Néstor Humberto Martínez Neira, took place in the city of Bogotá. This summit was intended to take stock of the joint strategy...

Corruption in the country’s prison and penitentiary system of the country was revealed

The Office of the Attorney General discovered alarming cases of corruption in the so-called ‘La Modelo’ and ‘La Picota’ prisons in Bogotá, and other penitentiary centers in the country. Inmates and their relatives paid Inpec officials for benefits in...

“Public resources are not, like the expression used in Antioquia, ‘Las Natilleras’* of public servants”: stated Attorney General Martínez Neira

The Office of the Attorney General carried out the arrest of the mayor of Envigado, Raúl Eduardo Cardona González; Secretary of the Treasury (Secretaria de Hacienda) Girlesa Mesa Medina;  former councilor of Envigado, Lindon Johnson Galeano Abello, and several...

Cooperation agreement to investigate and prosecute electoral crimes

The Office of the Attorney General and the Electoral Council (Consejo Nacional Electoral)  signed a cooperation agreement to guarantee a transparent and legal electoral process The election calendar for 2019 began with the registration of identity documents and institutions...

Triple A was plundered since year 2000: stated Attorney General, Martinez Neira

The Office of the Attorney General issued preventive detention orders for executives and former executives of Inassa and Empresa de Servicios Públicos Triple A S.A. for an alleged contract on tecnichal assistance.  The Office of the Attorney General seized...

Network involved in corrupt activities concerning the remodeling of stadium of Bucaramanga was discovered: about three thousand million pesos would have been embezzled in the Department of Santander

‘Bolsillos de Cristal’ – ‘Guane’ Operation Three people were arrested due to alleged irregularities in the awarding of contracts concerning remodeling of Villa Olimpica in Bucaramanga Within the framework of the fight against corruption and in the course of actions...

Academic event with the Kingdom of the Netherlands has finished

Interim Deputy Attorney, María Paulina Riveros Dueñas, and the ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Jeroen Roodenburg, brought the cold cases and communication training workshop to a close. This course was delivered by National the Police of Netherlands. The...