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The Office of the Attorney General brought alias El Indio to justice for being considered as the ringleader of a residual group which committed terrorists actions and crimes against indigenous communities in Cauca

The evidence and the arguments presented by the Office of the Attorney General were decisive for a supervisory judge in Popayán (Cauca) to impose a prison sentence for Fernando Israel Méndez, alias El Indio, the alleged ringleader of the...

The work of the Office of the Attorney General allowed convictions against former mayors of Barranquilla Bernardo Hoyos Montoya and Guillermo Enrique Hoenisgberg Bornacelly for diverting resources of the district and favoring a contractor

The evidence presented by the Office of the Attorney General allowed to finish an extensive trial and the conviction of the former Mayors of Barranquilla (Atlántico) Bernardo Hoyos Montoya and Guillermo Enrique Hoenisgberg Bornacelly to 7 and 9 years...

Exemplary sentence against people responsible for massacre known as ‘masacre de Masinga’ in Magdalena

The evidence and arguments presented by the Office of the Attorney General were accepted by a special court in Santa Marta (Magdalena) which imposed 49 years in prison on three people responsible for the so-called ‘Masacre de Masinga’, which...

Premises used to store and sell stolen hydrocarbon were dismantled

The Office of the Attorney General through its CTI judicial police and with the support of units of the National Army and the National Police, located and dismantled five points of storage and sale of hydrocarbons that were allegedly...

Twelve ‘postulados’ of the Peasant Self-Defense Bloc in Puerto Boyacá were sentenced by virtue of a plea bargain

The Justice and Peace Chamber of the Supreme Court (Sala de Conocimiento de Justicia y Paz) announced the early termination of the transitional process on 12 ‘postulados’* of the Peasant Self-Defense Bloc in Puerto Boyacá (Bloque Autodefensas Campesinas) and...

Man who would have participated in the kidnapping of two foreign citizens in Cauca Sent to prison

The Office of the Attorney General achieved in hearings before a supervisory judge, the prosecution of Jhon Freider Castro Ipia for his alleged participation in the kidnapping of two foreign citizens. The victims, the Swiss citizen Daniel Max Guggenheim and...

As a result of raids, the Office of the Attorney General achieved the rescue of two people allegedly kidnapped by residual Farc groups in Arauca

Under the coordination of the Special Prosecutor's Office appointed to Gaula, Freddy Eduardo Riascos Chalapud and Guillermo Barrios Briñez, who had allegedly been victims of extortive kidnapping by the residual organized armed group (GAO) E-10 Farc, were rescued on...

Office of the Attorney General achieved convictions against people who committed attacks against human rights defenders and demobilized FARC´s members in Antioquia and Bogotá

The investigations carried out by the Office of the Attorney General were decisive to achieve four convictions against those responsible for committing attacks against human rights defenders and demobilized FARC´s members.  Affectations to the community in Uraba (Antioquia) have...

The Office of the Attorney strengthens strategy for successfully solving murder cases in the country

Prosecutors and judicial police groups have been assigned to the branch offices to join efforts aimed at prosecuting those responsible for this crime. Crimes that seriously affect public safety are prioritized by the Office of the Attorney General. In this...

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...