Top criminals throw lavish parties at Colombia’s high security prison
Source: Colombia Reports
Top criminals throw lavish parties at Colombia’s high security prison
Oct 13, 2014 posted by Emil Foget
A convicted embezzler of millions in state funds has turned Colombia’s most important high security prison into his private disco with live music and smuggled rum, reported magazine Semana on Sunday.
High security prison La Picota is supposed to be one of Colombia’s most strict, watched and secure prisons as it is home to high-profile inmates including top drug lords and corrupt politicians. Therefore, for those unfamiliar with Colombia’s corrupt prison system it might come as a surprise that new videos that surfaced show the prison appearing more like a Caribbean disco with accordions, guitars, singers and an audience drinking rum and whiskey.
The happy assembly this time caught on film consisted of some of Colombia’s most notorious fraud convicted, having embezzled for more than $500 million from the Bogota treasury in an elaborate kick-back scheme.
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The event manager of the filmed social gathering was Emilio Tapia, one of the main characters in the Bogota corruption scandal, one of the biggest robberies of public funds in recent history. Tapia alone is believed to have embezzled $4 million dollars. Besides him the assembly consist of a Venezuelan drug trafficker, three paramilitaries and another embezzler.
Read more: http://colombiareports.co/colombias-top-embezzlers-living-like-kings-prison/
(Colombia has remained the largest recipient of U.S. taxpayers' hard-earned dollars in the Americas, in foreign and military aid since 2000. Well over 8 billion.)
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