Colombian hitman points finger at politician

The man who directed hit teams against the Colombian cocaine cartel’s Pablo Escobar fingered a disgraced politician yesterday as being behind the 1989 assassination of leading presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan.

Alberto Santofimio Botero, a former senator and justice minister, was arrested on Thursday for the killing of Galan – a case that rocked Colombia and deprived the nation of a crusader against drug traffickers and corruption.