BOGOTA (AFP) – Colombia’s Supreme Court of Justice acquitted the nation’s ambassador to Nicaragua of drug trafficking charges, ruling that although he was found with 350 grammes of cocaine, prosecutors failed to prove he planned to sell it.
The ambassador, Leon Fredy Munoz, has been under investigation since police found the drugs in his suitcase at Medellin airport in May 2018. Munoz, who at the time was a congressman, claims the drugs were planted by political rivals.
Prosecutors had requested a jail term of nine to 11 years.
