Article: Ex-Colombian Justice Minister Faces Charges

DAN MOLINSKI, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
12-22-2005
Dateline: BOGOTA, Colombia
Prosecutors are filing homicide charges against a former justice minister in connection with the 1989 assassination of a leading presidential candidate, the attorney general's office said Wednesday.

Alberto Santofimio Botero was arrested in May after witnesses said he had told drug kingpin Pablo Escobar he should have Luis Carlos Galan assassinated. Galan had been crusading against drug traffickers and corruption.

"The Attorney General's Office found merit to formulate a charge against ... Santofimio for the assassination of presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan," said a statement Wednesday from the ...

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