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PROCESS 8000
Congressmen, candidates and ministers under Ernesto Samper were investigated and sentenced to prison. This process began when the financing of the Cali Cartel to the campaign of the then presidential candidate Ernesto Samper was discovered; Being the incumbent president, he could not be investigated or tried by the ordinary justice but by Congress, through the Commission of Accusations of the House of Representatives. After 4 years of his presidential. -
FONCOLPUERTOS SCANDAL
In which a large number of people, including public and common employees, were convicted of falsifying public documents, prevarication, embezzlement for appropriation and conspiracy to commit a crime, since they fraudulently collected pensions from the liquidated state company "Puertos de Colombia "through its pension fund (Foncolpuertos). The case was widely discussed in the Colombian Congress, Ingrid Betancourt stood out, directly accusing former presidents Ernesto Samper and César Gaviria. -
INVERCOLSA SCANDAL.
It exploded during the period of Fernando Londoño as Minister of the Interior and Justice, in the presidential period of Álvaro Uribe. The Superintendency of Companies imposed a penalty on Londoño for improperly acquiring 145 million shares of the firm Invercolsa for an amount of $ 9,000 million pesos in May 1997 (almost USD $ 7 million in that year), forcing him to present his resignation as minister in 2004. -
THE PARAPOLITICS
Political corruption scandal in which links between politicians and paramilitaries were discovered after the demobilization process carried out by the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, through a document signed by those involved and known to public opinion as the Pacto de Ralito. Among other things, it was discovered that the former director of the DAS, Jorge Noguera, had placed the security body at the disposal of the paramilitary Jorge 40 -
THE JIDISPOLITICS
The Supreme Court of Justice determined that the representative to the Chamber Yidis Medina gave her vote in exchange for perks to her city of origin, Barrancabermeja, to approve the constitutional reform project that would allow Álvaro Uribe and future presidents to aspire to a second term. immediately. Yidis Medina was sentenced to 47 months of home detention for the crime of bribery. In addition to the congresswoman, senior officials of Álvaro Uribe's -
AGRO SECURE INCOME SCANDAL
Irregularities in the program for low-income peasant families, which allocated rural subsidies for more than $ 200,000 million Colombian pesos (about $ 77 million dollars, at the 2009 rate) to drug traffickers and borrowers families from Magdalena and Valle del Cauca , including former Miss Colombia Valerie Domínguez, her then boyfriend, sister-in-law and in-laws. The Supreme Court of Justice sentenced the former Minister of Agriculture Andres Felipe Arias. -
NOTEBOOKS POSTER
The three large companies in the notebook industry in Colombia (Carvajal, Scribe and Kimberly) were sanctioned in February by the Superintendency of Industry and Commerce (SIC), due to an alliance discovered between them to eliminate competition and inflate prices of these school supplies to their interests, harming parents who consume these products for their children in school.