Former Governor of Chocó, 22 years' imprisonment for corruption

In the first instance, the Supreme Court of Justice sentenced Efrén Palacios Serna, the former governor of Chocó, to 22 years of home imprisonment for the crime of embezzlement for appropriation, contract without compliance with legal requirements and ideological falsehood in a public document for acts of corruption related to the health sector committed in December 2013. Why he was convicted. According to the investigation, Palacios Serna, thro…

In addition to the conviction, the former governor was disqualified from public office and punished with a fine of $1,720,467,649 million