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Lawsuit

6 Feb 2013

Drummond lawsuit (re paramilitary killings in Colombia, criminal proceedings in Colombia)

Status: ONGOING

Date lawsuit was filed
6 Feb 2013
Unknown
Workers
Location of Filing: Colombia
Location of Incident: Colombia
Type of Litigation: Domestic

Companies

Drummond United States of America Mining

Sources

Criminal investigation against Drummond officials in Colombia

In February 2013 a former contractor for Drummond was sentenced by a Colombian court to 38 years in prison for organizing the killing of two labour leaders in 2001.  The judge ordered prosecutors to investigate Drummond’s president and several former employees to determine whether they had a role in the killings. Consequently, in May 2015, a former executive of Drummond was charged with the murder of two trade unionists, after former paramilitaries claimed he took part in the murders ordered by the company. This case is now to be decided by Colombia’s Courts of Justice.

In October 2018, the Colombian Specialized Criminal Prosecutor's Office No. 247 reopened investigation against eight current and former Drummond officials over allegations of financing paramilitaries' war crimes in Colombia from 1996 to 2006. The company denied that it supported illegal armed groups in a statement and expressed willingness to cooperate with the authorities on the investigation.

- Drummond Officials Charged with Financing AUC War Crimes in Colombia, International Rights Advocates, 30 Oct 2018
- Colombia reopens probe into Alabama-based Drummond, Associated Press, Tuscaloosanews.com, 30 Oct 2018
- Colombia calls Drummond coal officials to testify on paramilitaries: source, Reuters, 30 Oct 2018
- Statement to the public opinion, Drummond, 30 Oct 2018

Colombian judge convicts ex-contractor in Drummond union leader killing, Associated Press, 6 Feb 2013

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