18 congressmen investigated for drug agency irregularities

[Judi Lynn]

18 congressmen investigated for drug agency irregularities
Thursday, 02 June 2011 09:11
Marguerite Cawley

Colombia's Supreme Court will investigate 18 former congressmen for irregularities found in the processing of seized assets by the National Drugs Agency (DNE), W Radio reported Thursday.

Authorities are considering the possibility of investigating the implicated politicians for money laundering and drug trafficking, after it was found that many properties that were seized by the DNE and processed by the congressmen passed to drug traffickers' front men. Through this practice, the traffickers recovered their properties and with the products of these estates, financed cocaine shipments.

The investigators also found a computer in a notary office, which appears to be the instrument that was used in legalizing the transfer of the DNE estates.

In dialogue with W Radio, Interior Minister German Vargas Lleras confirmed the investigations and said that in the coming days the Supreme Court of Justice and the Prosecutor General's Office will have "numerous surprises."

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