In Colombia, more than 200 convictions for corruption were handed down in 2022

Colombian Justice has handed down 214 convictions for corruption in 2022, in legal proceedings with which it has managed to recover 110,000 million pesos of the public coffers that were in the hands of individuals, according to a balance of the Prosecutor’s Office.

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These are results for 19 crimes related to corruption, such as embezzlement, prevarication, bribery or contracts without legal compliance that “They revealed various irregular recruitment maneuvers and illegal actions deployed to appropriate public resources”the prosecution body said in a statement.

In this way, 177 people were charged throughout the year for crimes related to corruption and, in addition to the 214 convictions, there are 796 processes in the trial stage open.

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Among these cases, the Prosecutor’s Office stands out, the disarticulation of “a gigantic network of corruption coordinated by a former senator of the Republic”without giving names but referring to former Liberal Party congressman Mario Castaño, who last September accepted that he was leading a structure, with the complicity of public officials, that appropriated multimillion-dollar State resources for which he has been convicted of more than 19 crimes.

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the former senator “It would have directed the contracting of works, goods and services in entities of the national order and in mayoralties of at least seven departments”recapitulated the Prosecutor’s Office.

The prosecution body has detected in this case 114 irregular contracts worth 112,000 million pesos and has arrested and charged 34 people, including five mayors, of whom 14 have accepted the charges.

EFE