{"id":38537,"date":"2020-03-20T14:58:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T19:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?page_id=38537"},"modified":"2025-12-10T16:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:01:41","slug":"director-special-unit-on-investigations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/staff\/director-special-unit-on-investigations\/","title":{"rendered":"Director of the Special Investigation Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tdi_1\" class=\"tdc-row\"><div class=\"vc_row tdi_2  wpb_row td-pb-row\" >\n<style scoped>\n\n\/* custom css *\/\n.tdi_2,\r\n                .tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n                    min-height: 0;\r\n                }.tdi_2,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: block;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\n<\/style><div class=\"vc_column tdi_4  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<style scoped>\n\n\/* 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id=\"menu-item-38540\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-38540\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/staff\/director-special-unit-on-investigations\/\">Director of the Special Investigation Unit<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_column tdi_13  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span6\">\n<style scoped>\n\n\/* custom css *\/\n.tdi_13{\r\n                    vertical-align: baseline;\r\n                }.tdi_13 > .wpb_wrapper,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_13 > .wpb_wrapper > .tdc-elements{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: block;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_13 > .wpb_wrapper > .tdc-elements{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_13 > .wpb_wrapper > .vc_row_inner{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_13 > .wpb_wrapper{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t    height: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\n<\/style><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">[vc_column_text]<strong>Nelson Andr\u00e9s Escobar, Director of the Special Investigation Unit<\/strong>\r\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span data-ogsc=\"black\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">He holds a law degree from\u00a0<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"black\">Universidad de Nari\u00f1o,<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"black\">\u00a0and he majored in Administrative Law, Judicial Law, and Criminal Procedure at\u00a0<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"black\">Universidad Nacional<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"black\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"black\">Nari\u00f1o<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"black\">, and\u00a0<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"black\">Universidad Externado de Colombia<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"black\">.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span data-ogsc=\"black\">His professional career is focused on the Judicial Branch. In 2004, he worked as court clerk of the Municipal Civil Court of La Uni\u00f3n (Nari\u00f1o). Then, he served as a municipal judge of mixed jurisdiction (juez promiscuo) of Mocoa (Putumayo), judge of mixed jurisdiction (Juez Promiscuo) of Puerto As\u00eds (Putumayo), and municipal judge \u2018ambulante\u2019 in Pasto (Nari\u00f1o).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span data-ogsc=\"black\">In 2012, he joined the Attorney General&#8217;s Office. Since then, he has served as prosecutor at the Directorate specialized in the fight against Criminal Organizations, director of the branch office in Nari\u00f1o (Seccional Nari\u00f1o) (2017-2019), prosecutor specialized in the fight against organized crime (2019-2024), and recently, director of the branch office in Cauca (Seccional Cauca).<\/span><\/p>\r\n[\/vc_column_text]<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[vc_single_image image=\"44590\" img_size=\"full\"] STAFFAttorney General Coordinator of the Delegate Prosecutors\u2019 Unit to the Supreme Court of Justice Executive Director Director of Policies and Strategy Office Director- Office of Planning and Development Director \u2013 Office of Legal Affairs Director \u2013 Office of Communications Director-Office of International Affairs Director- Office of Internal Control Director- Office of Disciplinary [...]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":8564,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-38537","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38537"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44591,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38537\/revisions\/44591"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}