Colombia’s Prosecutor General announced an increase in governmental corruption and said the State lacks a solid regulatory framework to combat the issue, El Espectador reported Thursday.
Prosecutor General Guillermo Mendoza Diago likened the situation to those in African nations saying “Colombia is on track to something like what happened in Nigeria or other countries, where they are now worse off than when they were English colonies, because of corruption”.
Mendoza denounced two cases in two Colombian departments in which 26 billion pesos (around US$13 million) in resources remains unaccounted for.
The Prosecutor General said the State needs to develop more effective methods to regulate funds but added that “paradoxically, corruption has increased in the sense that now we are detecting more cases, maybe because there are now more instances of the State trying to control the issue”.
