Arrest warrant, 10 years jail for former Senate director over corruption
Arrest warrant, 10 years jail for former Senate director over corruption
Mar 12, 2014 posted by Andrew Wight
The former administrative director of the Colombian Senate has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for using the Senate Library budget to distribute corrupt contracts.
The First Bogotá Circuit Criminal Court sentenced José Hernan Baute and put out a warrant for his arrest, reported Colombia’s Caracol Radio Tuesday.
At least 140 irregular library contracts worth over $3.66 million were signed in 2002 on behalf of Baute, then the managing director of the Senate. The contracts allegedly went to family or political connections, who then did not fulfill the terms.
The library’s budget chief, Leonel Jose Clavijo, was also sentenced, along with library assistant Diego Fernando Henao, Senate clerk Yolanda Giraldo Vela and library Division Chief of Goods and Services Carlos Hernan Salazar, according to the Vanguardia newspaper.
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http://colombiareports.co/arrest-warrant-10-years-jail-former-senate-director/