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Colombia’s Inspector General on Tuesday filed charges against Bogota’s ombudsman Francisco Rojas Birry for allegedly receiving bribes from pyramid company DMG.
The charges state that Rojas Birry was faced with a “conflict of interests,” with one of DMG’s founders, William Suarez, claiming that the ombudsman had received up to COP200 million ($78 thousand) from the firm in 2008.
According to the inspector general, “it would seem that the ombudsman did not declare himself hindered when commissioning operatives in the investigation of the DMG, a company with which Rojas Birry had personal ties.”
Rojas Birry was first suspected of receiving bribes from DMG in April 2009.
