Colombia charges mining executives over terrorist financing

Drummond claims charges based on human rights lawyers' conspiracy
by Adriaan Alsema June 1, 2023

The Colombia director of US mining corporation Drummond has been charged for allegedly funding a paramilitary group that assassinated two labor union leaders in 2001.

Drummond Colombia boss Jose Miguel Linares and his predecessor Augusto Jimenez will have to respond to conspiracy charges.

The prosecution claims the two mining executives asked the Northern Bloc of the now-defunct paramilitary organization AUC to provide “security” around the US company’s mines in the Cesar province.

Between 1996 and 2001, Linares and Jimenez allegedly inflated the value of a contract with a food provider to pay the illegal armed group that was deemed a terrorist organization by the US Government in 2002.

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These criminal investigations are of major importance to the clarification of alleged links between foreign companies and death squads in Colombia, which implicates major foreign investors like Chiquita and Glencore.

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