The crimes of embezzlement

16 Lawyers were sentenced today to prison terms ranging from five to 18 years in prison in the process by billionaire Foncolpuertos embezzlement.

The sentence was handed down by Judge Third Specialized Bogota who found them guilty of representation of former employees charged in false records of payment of social benefits.

According to the investigation of an anti-corruption prosecutor, the sentenced falsified a little more than a thousand minutes of settlement, allegedly signed before the Regional Labour inspectors Barranquilla, to demand the payment of social benefits presumably not accorded to former workers at Ports of Colombia .

The prosecutor stated that the records submitted to Foncolpuertos were false and that the defendants participated in the preparation, processing and collection of money.

On these facts, the Court found responsible for the crimes of embezzlement and malfeasance aggravated by appropriating a share to the following people: Read more »