Colombia: Petro will seek to establish “common criminal policy criteria” with the new prosecutor

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Pedrostated that he will seek to establish with the new attorney general, Luz Adriana Camargowho was elected this Tuesday to the position by the Supreme Court of Justice, the “common criteria”of the country’s criminal policy.

“There is now dialogue between the new Public Ministry and the National Government establish common criminal policy criteria, which I hope can be constructed effectively“, said the president at a press conference.

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Luz Adriana Camargoprosecutor with extensive experience in criminal justice and international commissions, was elected new attorney general of the Colombiaon the fifth day of the Court’s voting.

Lawyer specializing in criminal law with experience in Prosecutor’s office And in supreme court of justicethe prosecutor was elected with 18 votes, 2 more than necessary for a majority.

“The list is my responsibility. A woman was going to leave here today, that’s what was achieved, and without a history of corruption. From here we will see if it worked or not.”, added Petro.

Camargo is a lawyer Savannah College in Bogotá, specialized in criminal law and criminology. She worked as a judge and in 1992 joined the Public Ministry, where she became an assistant prosecutor at the Supreme Court.

After leaving the Public Ministry, she was at the Federal Supreme Court, where she was an assistant magistrate of the Criminal Cassation Chamber and worked with the current Minister of Defense, Ivan Velasquezin cases such as the one that investigated links between parliamentarians and paramilitaries (so-called parapoliticians).

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She also worked between 2013 and 2019 with him on International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (Cicig), of which Velásquez was commissioner.

Camargo was head of Investigation and Litigation Departmentwhen numerous acts of corruption and congressmen in the Central American country were investigated.

He will replace the position Francisco Barbosawhose term ended more than a month ago and was chosen prosecutor in 2020 from a list proposed by the then president Ivan Duqueof whom he was a close friend.

Source: Elcomercio

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