{"id":49986,"date":"2022-06-30T15:35:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T22:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=49986"},"modified":"2022-06-30T20:36:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T03:36:11","slug":"designation-of-former-colombian-senator-luis-alberto-gil-castillo-for-involvement-in-significant-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=49986","title":{"rendered":"Designation of Former Colombian Senator Luis Alberto Gil Castillo for Involvement in Significant Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>06\/30\/2022 01:50 PM EDT<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Ned Price, Department Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>The United States is designating former Colombian Senator Luis Alberto Gil Castillo for his involvement in significant corruption.\u00a0 Gil Castillo\u00a0solicited and accepted monetary bribes from a subgroup of the then-U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization (FTO) known as the\u00a0Autodefensas\u00a0Unidas\u00a0de Colombia (AUC). The bribe was accepted in exchange for exercising undue political influence in his official capacity as a member of the Colombian Senate. In addition, Gil Castillo later attempted to bribe a witness in a criminal case against him.\u00a0 These actions undermined the stability of Colombia\u2019s democratic institutions and the security of the United States against transnational crime and terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>This public designation is made under Section 7031(c) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2022. Under this authority, designated officials of foreign governments involved in significant corruption and their immediate family members are generally ineligible for entry into the United States.\u00a0 The Department is also designating Gil Castillo\u2019s spouse Doris Clemencia Vega Quir\u00f3z.\u00a0\u00a0These designations follow the U.S. designation under Section 7031(c) in December 2021 of Gil Castillo\u2019s associate, Carlos Juli\u00e1n Bermeo Casas, a former Colombian prosecutor, for engaging in significant corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s actions reinforce Colombia\u2019s own law enforcement and judicial actions against Gil Castillo and reaffirm the commitment of the United States to combat corruption.\u00a0 The United States continues to stand with all Colombians in support of democracy, the rule of law, and will continue to hold accountable those who abuse public power for personal gain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>06\/30\/2022 01:50 PM EDT Ned Price,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49987,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49986\/revisions\/49987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}