Imprisoned brokers and politicians enjoy luxuries behind bars
Source: Colombia Reports
Imprisoned brokers and politicians enjoy luxuries behind bars
Posted by Grace Brown on Sep 16, 2015
Imprisoned white collar criminals from Colombia’s former largest brokerage company have been afforded luxury treatment including barbecues and alcohol while in prison.
According to reports, Juan Carlos Ortiz, Tomas Jaramillo and Ricardo Martines, former employers of Interbolsa who were imprisoned for fraud following the liquidation of the company in 2012, were enjoying an alcohol fueled barbecue at the Bogota La Picota prison with fellow inmates, including former senator Guillermo Gaviria, former governors provincial governors Julio Acosta and Edilberto Castro, councilman Jose Juan Rodriguez and lawyer Alvaro Davila.
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La Picota is a high security prison, and supposedly one of Colombia’s strictest, watched and secured, and home to high-profile inmates including drug lords and corrupt politicians. The prison became well-known, however, as the “parapolitics pavilion” due to high profile parties that took place there by politicians convicted of paramilitary connections.
The prison party on September 6 was brought to authorities’ awareness after it became disorderly, and had to be broken up by an elite group from INPEC, the National Penitentiary and Prison Institute.
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(Colombia remains one of the largest recipients of U.S. taxpayers' foreign aid.)
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