Colombia’s Inspector General risks jail for ignoring judge defending Bogota mayor
Colombia’s Inspector General risks jail for ignoring judge defending Bogota mayor
posted by Mimi Yagoub
Jan 31, 2014
Colombia’s Inspector General may be put in his place by a slap down appeal of a citizen who earlier this month managed to suspend the IG’s dismissal and 15-year ban from public office of Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro.
The IG could, in an ironic twist of fate, see himself sanctioned or even arrested for alleged contempt of court after failing to fulfill a January 14 ruling in support of a citizen’s writ of protection – a written document that can be filed by any citizen in protection of fundamental rights and which must be seen to by a judge within 10 days.
The writ, along with dozens of others which have also delayed the proceedings against Petro, was submitted by Colombian national Jose Gotardo Perez in an attempt to suspend and eventually annul Inspector General Alejandro Ordoñez’ decision to suspend Petro over the mayor’s attempt to bring Bogota’s trash collection under state control.
The suit should have left the IG’s dismissal process hanging in the air until Ordoñez’ verdict has been confirmed by the State Council.
Regardless of the judicial order against him by the Court of Cundinamarca stating that the process of dismissal “will temporarily suspend the judicial effects of this disciplinary act until the administrative litigation authority decides on the lawfulness of the act,” Ordoñez reportedly continued in his course by delivering an edict to mayor Petro confirming his dismissal 10 days after Armenta’s ruling.
More:
http://colombiareports.co/inspector-general-risks-jail-ignoring-judge-defended-petro/
