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Colombia’s Attorney General’s Office has moved to implicate the outgoing Petro administration in a major corruption scandal centered on the Asociación Regional de Municipios del Caribe (Aremca), after the arrests of nine of the organization’s directors on charges related to the alleged diversion of more than CoP$496B in royalties funding through 101 inter-administrative agreements with twelve departments, most never fully executed.