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Colombia's prosecution cornered over drug links
Deputy chief prosecutor implicated in growing corruption scandal
by Adriaan Alsema May 16, 2023
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has increasingly come over fire over top prosecutors’ alleged involvement in covering up organized crime.
The mushrooming corruption scandal involves deputy Prosecutor General Martha Marcena and multiple other top prosecutors and police officials.
The prosecutors and cops are alleged to be favoring senior mafia figures and paramilitary organization AGC.
The scandal initially broke in February when the prosecution’s former financial crimes chief, Ana Catalina Noguera, was arrested on corruption charges together with the former chief of the National Police’s international cooperation unit, Colonel Ricardo Duran.
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A senior prosecution investigator, Fernando Rodrigo Romero, accused Hernandez of also blocking a 2021 request to arrest 14 reported businessmen for their alleged involvement in more than 20 assassinations in the northern Magdalena an Cesar provinces.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-prosecution-cornered-over-drug-links/
