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Colombia's chief prosecutor too busy harassing critics to fight crime?
by Adriaan Alsema July 6, 2020
Francisco Barbosa (Image: Colprensa)
Colombia’s chief prosecutor is under fire again over his alleged abuse of power to bully critics of his long-time friend, President Ivan Duque, instead of fighting crime.
Some 60 political and judicial heavyweights sent a letter to Duque after Prosecutor General Francisco Barbosa ordered the confiscation of properties belonging to Magdalena Governor Carlos Caiceda and former Mayor Rafael Martinez.
According to the leading politicians and judicial experts, Barbosa’s latest controversial move is ‘a new attack against those of us who think differently and who dispute the policies of the national government.”
“No criminal conduct can be inferred from the actions of the former mayors,” the politicians and jurists wrote the president.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-chief-prosecutor-too-busy-harassing-critics-to-fight-crime/
