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Judi Lynn

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Sun Jun 7, 2020, 11:20 PM Jun 2020

Colombia arrests cops who discovered 2018 election fraud plot

by Adriaan Alsema June 7, 2020

Colombia’s prosecution arrested the policemen who accidentally discovered a 2018 election rigging plot between the far-right party of President Ivan Duque and drug traffickers.

The arrest of Major Yefferson Tocarruncho and Sergeant Wadith Velasquez went almost unnoticed because chief prosecutor Francisco Barbosa caused a political hurricane by ordering the arrest of Antioquia Governor Anibal Gaviria on vague corruption charges.



Former President Alvaro Uribe (L) and late mafia associate
Luis Guillermo Hernandez. (Image: Instagram)

Not the suspects, but the investigators in jail

Ironically, the investigators who discovered the election fraud scandal are now in jail while those suspected of plotting to rig the 2018 elections are free, with the exception of Jose Guillermo Hernandez, a.k.a. “El Ñeñe,” who was murdered in Brazil in May last year.

Bogota Mayor Claudia Lopez accused the prosecution of purposely trying to divert the attention away from the election fraud scandal known in Colombia as “Ñeñepolitics.”

More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-arrests-cops-who-discovered-2018-election-fraud-plot/

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