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Judi Lynn

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Sat Jun 14, 2014, 05:31 PM Jun 2014

Tax agency director to flee Colombia amid death threats

Tax agency director to flee Colombia amid death threats
Jun 14, 2014 posted by Larisa Sioneriu

The director of Colombia’s tax agency (DIAN) will resign and flee the country amid death threats received from organized crime groups, national media reported Friday.

Juan Ricardo Ortega, the DIAN director, will quit his job in the tax agency and leave the country together with his family after receiving a number of death threats, Caracol Radio reported Friday.

According to Caracol, Ortega has fought against corruption within the tax agency during his tenure, during which he recieved various death threats. For example, according to Bogota’s Blu Radio, drug traffickers had allegedly offered $3 million to kill Juan Ricardo Ortega.

Colonel Gustavo Moreno, the official charged with investigating crimes against National Tax and Customs Direction (DIAN) employees, said criminals were “bothered” by the authorities’ crackdown on illegal and stolen goods entering Colombian territory.

Tax officials have been subjects to death threats and assassination in 2013 as well. Last year, two tax officials were assassinated and other 29 received death threats.

More:
http://colombiareports.co/dian-director-flee-colombia-amid-death-threats/

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