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Two foreign citizens who would be involved in the murder of the United Nations journalist Natalia Castillo were sent to prison

The Attorney General´s Office established that one of the defendants participated directly in the crime and in the theft committed against two of the journalist´s friends in Bogotá. The other defendant was allegedly involved in accessing the banking products...

The Attorney General participated in a security summit in Bogotá to analyze strategies on justice issues

The Attorney General highlighted that the entity has obtained detention measures in 80% of the known cases. At the end of a meeting between representatives of the Judicial Branch and the mayor of Bogotá, Claudia López Hernández; the Attorney General,...

The Attorney General announced important investigative advances about the crimes that affect public safety in Magdalena and La Guajira the most

The Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa Delgado, traveled to Santa Marta (Magdalena) to assess the progress made concerning ​​public safety in the Caribbean region and to streamline investigative strategies in context. In the company of the Deputy Attorney General, Martha Janeth...

Five alleged perpetrators of murder and other crimes in Guadalajara de Buga (Valle del Cauca) were sent to prison

After accepting the arguments presented by the Attorney General's Office, a judge sent five alleged members of a criminal group to prison. They were charged with aggravated conspiracy to commit a crime; trafficking or possession of narcotics, aggravated homicide...

Unprecedented achievements of the Office of the Attorney General against crime in the region of Magdalena Medio and Norte de Santander

The operations made it possible to impact 6 criminal structures with the arrest and prosecution of 56 people identified as alleged members. In that region, the Office of the Attorney General significantly increased the rates of clarification of...

People allegedly responsible for collective murders that took place in Andes (Antioquia) and La Guayacana (Nariño) were arrested

  The Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa Delgado, traveled with his executive team to Carepa (Antioquia) to learn at first hand the investigative advances related to criminal acts that affect public safety. There, he announced important results regarding the clarification of...

ADenunciar broadens its services and is available to assist victims of gender-based violence

In a joint work to benefit citizens, the Office of the Attorney General and the National Police, activated in the virtual platform ¡ADenunciar! a new option for victims of gender-based violence to report their cases in a prompt and timely...

As a result of the operation ‘Faraón’ carried out against kidnapping and extortion, the Office of the Attorney General and the National Police arrested 307 people

As a result of a joint operation carried out by two institutions,  38 criminal organizations throughout the country received a hard blow. The action took place in 19 departments and two main cities.  Within the framework of the Strategic Direction defined...

“An investigation with a differential approach and with all the necessary investigative, criminal and forensic protocols will be carried out “: Delegate Director for the Office on Public Safety

In response to the guideline defined by the Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa Delgado, to prioritize the investigation into the murder of Juliana Giraldo in the rural area of ​​Miranda (Cauca), the Delegate Director on Public Safety, Carmen Torres Malaver,...

The Office of the Attorney General achieved a prison sentence against four people accused of infiltrating protests and committing vandalism in Bogotá

They were allegedly coordinated by leaders of the FARC dissidents to promote terrorism in the main city of the country between November 2019 and September 2020. These results arise from the strategy of the Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa Delgado, to...