2018 presidential election fraud: Colombia's chief prosecutor asked to step aside

by Adriaan Alsema March 17, 2020

Anti-corruption NGOs’, judicial experts and journalists asked Colombia’s chief prosecutor to stop pretending he’s investigating the allegedly fraudulent election of his friend, President Ivan Duque.

Evidence that Prosecutor General Francisco Barbosa and his two predecessors have been withholding crucial evidence and the chief prosecutor’s evident conflict of interest have made the chief prosecutor’s role all but an insult to justice.

Transparency Colombia, human rights NGO DeJusticia and journalist Gonzalo Guillen asked the chief prosecutor to separate himself from the investigation because of his 25-year-long friendship with Duque, who is investigated by Congress.

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The request was made before weekly Semana found that Barbosa had been withholding 36,000 of 51,000 wiretaps, including crucial recordings that proves that the former personal assistant of Duque’s political patron, former President Alvaro Uribe, was conspiring with an alleged drug trafficker, allegedly on behalf of her boss.

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https://colombiareports.com/2018-presidential-election-fraud-colombias-chief-prosecutor-asked-to-step-aside/