Senator admits paying Supreme Court to obstruct probe into paramilitary ties
written by Adriaan Alsema August 29, 2017
A Senator of President Juan Manuel Santos‘ U Party on Tuesday testified how he paid the Supreme Court to obstruct an investigation into his alleged ties to paramilitary death squads.
In a hearing before the same Supreme Court he claimed to have bribed, Senator Musa Besaile said he paid Supreme Court justice Leonidas Bustos more than $600 thousand.
The money, allegedly paid between the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015, was meant to prevent the senator’s arrest while the court was investigating him for allegedly using paramilitary death squads to secure his 2006 election.
Apart from Besaile, the court is investigating Senator Hernan Andrade (Conservative Party) and former Antioquia Governor Luis Alfredo Ramos (Conservative Party) also for allegedly bribing justices in organized crime cases.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/senator-admits-paying-supreme-court-end-probe-paramilitary-ties/
Oinka, oink, oink
Senador Musa Besaile
