Judges and prosecutors join protests demanding resignation of Colombia's disgraced chief prosecutor
by Adriaan Alsema January 10, 2019
A citizen initiative to demand the resignation of Colombias disgraced Prosecutor General Nestor Humberto Martinez received a major boost after judicial workers announced they would join marches on Friday.
The judicial branch largest labor union, ASONAL, said its members would join the citizen initiative that already received the support of centrist and leftist opposition parties.
Martinez position has become virtually untenable after a US judge sentenced his hand-picked former anti-corruption chief on bribery charges and evidence arose indicating he failed to investigate the Odebrecht bribery scandal despite knowing about it a year before taking office in 2016.
The chief prosecutors apparent conflict of interest and failures to adequately investigate Odebrechts corruption practices in Colombia spurred the Supreme Court to appoint a special prosecutor in December.
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