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Former mayor arrested for alleged links with paramilitaries Mayor

According to a report of the Judicial Police, Corners was captured in Cartagena de Indias, capital of Bolivar departme1000nt, while Diaz was arrested in Bucaramanga. The two belong to the Liberal Party, opposition to the government of President Alvaro Uribe.

Investigations by the Attorney General indicate that Diaz gave Morales paramilitaries” financial resources when he was mayor of the population of the department Bolivar between 1998 and 2000, at a time when it was Agapito Corners (head of Public Prosecutions) of the municipal administration.

The prosecution”s investigation for conspiracy and murder of protected persons, as the armed group that had collaborated with Roberto Carballo killed, Judge Morales on March 6, 2002, appropriated the German news agency DPA.

Carballo was traveling on a bus that was intercepted by members of the Central Bolivar Bloc of the paramilitary United Self-Defense of Colombia (AUC). The armed men forced him down and killed him on the street.

Research indicates that some paramilitaries caught and convicted for the same crime received money from municipal coffers to finance its activities Morales .

About 70 legislators elected in 2006 were involved in the process of “para-politics”, so called because of political ties with paramilitaries, of which about 30 prisoners have been completed, as Most members of the rightist coalition government. (Telam) ajl-mag 25/04/2010 18:47