Alberto Santofimio

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Alberto Santofimio Botero is a Colombian politician who is a member of the Colombian Liberal Party. At one point, he was the Minister of Justice, a two-time presidential candidate and a senator. He was considered to be on close terms with famed drug lord, Pablo Escobar.^{[citation needed]}

In the 1990s, Santofimio was arrested and found guity of receiving money from drug trafficking in order to support his bid for the presidency. After serving a prison sentence, he again received his liberty.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] The case of Luis Carlos Galán

During the investgations around the murder of Luis Carlos Galán, the name of Santofimio was mentioned various times in reference to the whereabouts and the planning of the crime.^{[citation needed]}

On May 12, 2005, Santofimio was captured by the police for participating in the 1989 murder of ex-presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galán.^{[citation needed]}

John Jairo Velásquez, a.k.a. Popeye, one of Pablo Escobar´s more trusted "henchmen" and head of the assassins of the Medellín Cartel, alleged that Santofimio was partly responsible for the planning of Galan´s assassination^{[citation needed]}. Velásquez also accused Santofimio of having participated in the attempted assisinations of César Gaviria^{[citation needed]} and Andrés Pastrana Arango^{[citation needed]}, and in the planning of the murder of Rodrigo Lara Bonilla (Minister of Justice in 1984)^{[citation needed]}.