Future president of Colombian Congress has three corruption suits against him

[Judi Lynn]

Future president of Colombian Congress has three corruption suits against him
Tuesday, 19 July 2011 10:12
Matt Snyder

The future president of Colombia's Congress has three outstanding suits against him alleging influence peddling and ties to paramilitaries, Caracol Radio reported Tuesday.

Senator Juan Manuel Corzo, who has been picked by President Juan Manuel Santos to serve as the next president of Congress, currently has three suits leveled against him in Colombia's constitutional court.

The suits charge that Corzo abused his position by delivering notaries in exchange for votes for ex-President Alvaro Uribe, that he engaged in influence peddling in his appointment of political opponents to the environmental board (CAR) of the department of Norte de Santander, and that he has ties to paramilitaries as alleged in testimony given by a former member of Colombia's largest paramilitary group, the AUC.

Corzo dismissed the charges against him, saying that they had been fabricated to "generate bad information."

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