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How Colombia's top corporate lawyer became a 'threat to national security'
by Adriaan Alsema November 27, 2020
Colombia’s former chief prosecutor has gone from being one of the most powerful and influential corporate lawyers to facing trial for treason in just four years.
Nestor Humberto Martinez was “Sarmiento’s guy,” the go-to guy for Colombia’s richest man, Luis Carlos Sarmiento, who has bankrolled every president’s campaign for 20 years.
As if that wasn’t enough, former President Juan Manuel Santos‘ appointed the founder of former Vice-President German Vargas‘ Radical Change party “super minister” after the 2014 elections.
Things started going wrong, however, after the Supreme Court elected Martinez as Prosecutor General in mid-2016.
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Martinez hit an all-time low when the DEA caught his hand-picked anti-corruption czar red-handed while bartering bribes between politicians investigated by the Supreme Court and corrupt magistrates in Florida.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/how-colombias-top-corporate-lawyer-became-a-threat-to-national-security/