Ungrd Case: Olmedo López's Pre-Agreement with the Prosecution

The Fifth Criminal Court of the Specialized Circuit of Bogotá denied the pre-agreement signed between Olmedo López, former director of the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (Ungrd) and the Public Prosecutor’s Office. According to the judge, the penalty ends up being ridiculous and questions the low severity of the agreement in the face of the impact of the crime. “Taking into account vulnerable indigenous populations – as the Constituti…

Judge rejects pre-agreement between Prosecutor’s Office and Olmedo López: he called the penalty “irrisoria” Agencia Period... Vie, 16/05/2025 - 14:30 The judge considered that the treatment violated fundamental rights and offered a disproportionately low penalty. Tags { “@context”: “https://schema.org”, “@type”: “DataFeed”, “name”: “”, “description”: “”, “creator”: { “@type”: “Organization”, “name”: “Investigative Journalism Agency”, “logo”: { “…

The Fifth Criminal Court of Bogotá denied the pre-agreement signed between the Attorney General’s Office and Olmedo López Martínez, former director of the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD), in the framework of the investigation into the alleged embezzlement in that entity. The agreement, which provided for a sentence of six years and two months in prison, was considered “irrisorous” by the judge, who argued that the gravity of t…

López paid a total of $724 million corresponding to the assets obtained for the crime of embezzlement by aggravated appropriation by second paragraph 96