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Supreme court magistrate allegedly tipped off crime family over investigation
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Colombia s Supreme Court orders arrest of its fugitive former president
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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.
December 15, 2020
The Ramos Clan from Medellin may see two of its members go to prison over their alleged attempts to make the family patriarch’s narco ties go away through fraud and bribery.
According to the prosecution, Esteban Ramos bribed a prosecutor in an attempt to help his father, former Antioquia Governor Luis Alfredo Ramos, who allegedly bribed a Supreme Court magistrate to obstruct investigations into his alleged ties to the Medellin mafia.
While the family patriarch is awaiting sentencing over his alleged mafia ties, his son and daughter-in-law on Tuesday were charged with bribery as more than two decades of alleged criminal activity appears to be catching up.