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March 10, 2021
The former chief justice of Colombia’s Supreme Court was convicted for corruption on Tuesday after a bribery scandal reached the highest echelons of the country’s justice system.
Former magistrate Francisco Ricaurte was convicted on multiple corruption charges for his leading role in the “Toga Cartel,” a collective of top judges and Colombia’s former anti-corruption chief.
The corruption scandal of the century
The alleged members of the Toga Cartel took bribes from powerful politicians investigated by the Supreme Court in one of the biggest corruption scandals of this century.
The scandal was revealed in June 2017 after the United States’ Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) caught the anti-corruption chief of former Prosecutor General Nestor Humberto Martinez red-handed while bartering a bribe between a corrupt former governor and the cartel.