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...
Press Release 216
The Inspector General, Fernando Carrillo, the Comptroller General, Carlos Felipe Córdoba, and the Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa Delgado, inform that:
1. The three institutions agreed, within the framework of their competences, to create from the beginning of this pandemic a team integrated...
The Office of the Attorney General´s strategy allowed to bring alias Azul to justice, one of the main responsible for crimes committed against human rights defenders and demobilized former combatants in the south area of the country
With this arrest, the Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa Delgado ratifies his commitment to defending human rights and clarifying criminal actions that endanger the integrity of social leaders and people in the process of reincorporation.
In this sense, the Special Investigation...
The Office of the Attorney General exceeds more than a hundred investigations on violation of decreed measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus
Since the National Government declared a State of Economic, Social and Ecological Emergency, the Office of the Attorney General has monitored and verified the observance of the measures adopted in order to guarantee the assistance to Colombian citizens and...
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...
Office of the Attorney General strengthens investigations and prosecution of cases of gender-based violence during the preventive isolation period
The Office of the Attorney General prioritized investigations related to gender-based violence in order to make progress in the effective prosecution of those people responsible and guarantee the protection of victims. In this sense, the model to file complaints remains...
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...
Arrested four people who allegedly transported cocaine and marijuana in a boat
The Office of the Attorney General charged before a supervisory judge, the Nicaraguan citizens Nimrod Manuel Coper Sambola, Kerwin Lindel Sandoval Allen; the Costa Rican citizen Jorge Enrique Villareal Calderón and the Colombian citizen Alfredo Renteria Caicedo.
These four men...
Press Release 215
Regarding the information presented through media about the eventual release of prisoners by virtue of the sanitary emergency decreed by the National Government to tackle the spread of coronavirus, the Office of the Attorney General created a high-level internal...