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Hard blow against criminal structure ‘Los Caparros’ and residual armed groups responsible for acts against human rights defenders and Farc members in reincorporation process

Thanks to the evidence collected by the Office of the Attorney General, through the Special Investigation Unit, significant results were achieved in clarifying crimes and attacks against human rights defenders and people in the process of reincorporation. Initially, a court...

Office of the Attorney General seized war material from the Organized Criminal Group Los Pachenca in Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta

The Technical Investigative Corps (CTI) of the Office of the Attorney General and Gaula-Army found a cache in a countryside division named Don Diego, part of a small town known as Guachaca in the Department of Magdalena where war material seemed to be...

10 people were charged for alleged irregularities in resources management of the water and sewerage company Empresa de Acueducto, Alcantarillado y Aseo in Campoalegre (Huila)

Two former managers of the public company allegedly involved in embezzlement amounting to more than $ 80,000,000. From June 10 to 12, the Office of the Attorney General filed charges against 10 people for committing embezzlement against the public entity Empresa de...

The Office of the Attorney General will bring charges against the suspended governor of Chocó, four Mayors, two officers and an Army non-commissioned officer for alleged irregularities in contracting during the health emergency

The judicial and investigative actions carried out by the Office of the Attorney General, the Office of the Comptroller General, and the Office of the Inspector General yield positive results about the protection of resources allocated for the assistance...

An alleged financial leader of the Farc dissent and 3 other people sent to prison for the illegal possession of firearms of private use

After approving the request made by the Office of the Attorney General, Edgar Quitumbo Peñas, alias 'James' or 'El Gordo', an alleged leader of a residual armed group of the Jaime Martínez column (columna movil), as well as 3 other...

Charges against Mayor of Socorro (Santander) for alleged irregularities in a contract for the care of elderly people in vulnerable conditions

Within the framework of the Transparency for Emergency initiative ‘Transparencia para la Emergencia’, the Office of the Attorney General charged the Mayor of Socorro (Santander), Luz Alba Porras Rodríguez, for her alleged responsibility in the execution of a contract...

Son of former paramilitary leader Ramón Isaza sentenced for the displacement of a peasant family

The testimonies and other evidence provided by the Office of the Attorney General were decisive to prove the responsibility of Ovidio Isaza Gómez, son of the former head of the extinct Ramón Isaza self-defense group, for the forced displacement...

Sentence of 42 years and a half in prison was ratified concerning the disappearance of a minor in Buesaco (Nariño)

The Superior Tribunal in Pasto (Nariño) ratified in a second instance, the sentence issued by the First Criminal Court of the Special Circuit, in which José Germán Paguatián Isandará was sentenced to 42 years and 6 months in prison...

Former paramilitary commander alias Juancho Prada and 29 other ‘postulados’* of the AUC front, Héctor Julio Peinado, were sentenced for 465 criminal actions

This June 9, the Justice and Peace Chamber of the Superior Tribunal of Bogotá sentenced Juan Francisco Prada Márquez, alias Juancho Prada, former commander of Héctor Julio Peinado Becerra front of the Self-Defense  Forces  of  Colombia  (Autodefensas  Unidas  de  Colombia  AUC) for multiple offenses that caused 3,385...

Alias Cecilia and alias None, alleged members of a residual group responsible for committing murders and other criminal actions in the east of the country were sent to prison

They are under an investigation by the Office of the Attorney General for criminal conspiracy and aggravated murder. Thanks to the investigations and the evidence collected by the Office of the Attorney General, Yolanda González García, alias Cecilia; and Yonnier...