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Costa Rica Is Facing Its Worst-Ever Narco Corruption Scandal

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Costa Rica Is Facing Its Worst-Ever Narco Corruption Scandal The recent arrest of Costa Rica’s former security minister and the revelations in his case have shed light on the corruption and drug trafficking networks engulfing the government in what may be the most significant drug scandal in the country’s history. On June 23, Celso Gamboa Sánchez, who served as Costa Rica’s security minister from 2014 to 2015, was arrested in the capital, San Jo…

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The Attorney General’s Office of Costa Rica and the Judicial Investigation Agency (OIJ) carried out an operation on Tuesday in which three hotels and four houses were raided in San José and other parts of the country. As a result, four people were arrested only 30 minutes after the proceedings began. According to the authorities, the network offered jobs to Venezuelan women as “content generators”, but upon arriving in the country they were deta…

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InSight Crime broke the news in on Monday, July 14, 2025.
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