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Guilty verdict against the so-called “Zar de la Seguridad”

Guilty verdict against Jorge Arturo Moreno Ojeda, aka “Zar de la Seguridad” (tzar of security), was returned by a judge in Bogotá. An arrest warrant was also issued in order to locate and transfer him to prison. The Office of...

Employees of a travel agency who would have defrauded more than 300 people with fake tourist plans were arrested

In hearings (Audiencias Concentradas)1 before a judge in Bogotá, the Office of the Attorney General submitted evidence on the alleged mass scam that was allegedly promoted by the tourism company Volare Travels Colombia. The company launched the “dos por uno...

Soldier who would have threatened a candidate for the government of Boyacá was arrested

The Second Municipal Criminal Court in Chiquinquirá (Boyacá) issued a preventive measure with imprisonment against a soldier who would be behind the threats that the candidate for the government of Boyacá Jhonatán Sánchez Garavito has suffered. This is about Nelson...

Mayor of Agustín Codazzi (Cesar) was prosecuted for alleged appropriation of more than one billion pesos belonging to the municipality

After inferring his alleged responsibility of the commission of extortion and aggravated misappropriation, this November 15th, some members of the Technical Investigative Corps (CTI) of the Office of the Attorney General arrested the mayor of Agustín Codazzi (Cesar), Luis...

Alleged people responsible for setting fire to the property of a Police Officer in Pereira were arrested

Thanks to a coordinated action between the Office of the Attorney General and the National Police, the alleged perpetrators of the acts of vandalism that occurred on October 15th in Pereira (Risaralda) have been identified. The evidence collected would indicate...

Prison for female defense attorney and a magistrate´s relative who would be part of a corruption network interfering in the Administrative Court of Cundinamarca

The Office of the Attorney General gathered evidence that allegedly demonstrates the existence of a corruption network that would be composed of defense attorney Kelly Eslava Montes, the magistrate of the Administrative Court of Cundinamarca, Carlos Alberto Vargas Bautista,...

Former CTI officer in Cesar was sentenced for taking possession of seized items

The Office of the Attorney General demonstrated in trial that the former head of the Judicial Police Unit of CTI in Chiriguaná (Cesar), José Luis Villalobos Contreras, took possession of some seized evidence that remained in a storage area...

Alleged author of the murder of a social leader in Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta was sent to prison

At the request of the Office of the Attorney General, a judge from Barranquilla issued a preventive measure with imprisonment for Leandro Jhonatan Lara, alias 'Barbas' or 'Leandro', alleged intellectual author of the murder of Joaquín Trujillo García, social...

Alleged perpetrators of the murder of the indigenous leader Constantino Ramírez in Calarcá (Quindío) were sent to prison

The Office of the Attorney General prosecuted two men for the crime of the leader Constantino Ramírez of the Embera Chamī community (Dachi Agore Drua). The crime was perpetrated last October 17th on a road connecting Potosí village and...

Seven people were sent to prison for human trafficking offenses

Among the victims there were minors. One of them was sold by her  own mother to the network in exchange for money. In its fight to protect children and teenagers from commercial sexual exploitation, the Office of the Attorney General...