Confidential documents leaked ‘to obstruct investigation of constitutional court president’
Confidential documents leaked ‘to obstruct investigation of constitutional court president’
Posted by Emma Rosser on Jun 12, 2015
Confidential documents relating to Colombia’s constitutional court president were distributed among congressmen on Thursday in an apparent attempt to impede the lawmakers from investigating the top judge who is accused of corruption.
Magistrate Jorge Pretelt is currently under investigation after corruption complaints filed against him in March caused the largest corruption scandal within the Constitutional Courts since its inception in 1991.
Magistrate Mauricio Gonzalez accused the court president of asking oil company Fidupetrol for $200 thousand in return for promising that the court would revoke a $9 million fine imposed on the company by a lower court.
The leaked 18-page document allegedly contains arguments corresponding to challenges made by Pretelt’s lawyer, Carlos Arturo Gomez.
More:
http://colombiareports.com/confidential-documents-leaked-to-obstruct-investigation-of-constitutional-court-president/