The conciliation between Lombana and Reyes fails due to alleged workplace harassment, the Court sends the case to the Impeachment Commission in Congress.
The Supreme Court of Justice He sent a two-page document to the House Impeachment Committee this Tuesday. The judge signed it Marjorie Zunigaformer president of the Labor Cassation Chamber, and exposed a new chapter of a dispute in the Investigative Chamber.
Zúñiga is currently president of the labor coexistence committee of the Court, an internal body that is in charge of disputes between officials that do not involve the intervention of the Attorney General’s Office or the Accusation Commission. The magistrate Carlos Roberto Solorzano He is the vice president.
Both Zúñiga and Solórzano sent the Chamber the document, which was key in the confrontation between the judge Cristina Lombana Velásquez and the magistrate Cesar Reyes Medinare-elected president of the Investigative Chamber. Lombana accuses Reyes of alleged workplace harassment.
The Special Investigation Chamber began operating in October 2018, and since then it has been in charge of criminally investigating congressmen. The organization has not avoided controversies or accusations among its members.
According to Lombana, Reyes discredits her when she presents papers or expresses opinions. His complaint ensures that the togado’s positions move away from academics and become personal attacks. Reyes denies it. The coexistence committee tried to mediate.
Conciliation fails: Lombana and Reyes will meet in Congress
On December 5 at eleven in the morning the committee convened a conciliation hearing. However, It was not possible to move forward with the proceedings or reach an agreement.. Reyes Medina did not appear, and the Court ended the dialogue.
“Taking into account that the committee exhausted the stage of dialogue and conciliatory management provided for in current regulations, the failure of conciliation is established, which is why the matter is referred to the competent authority,” the letter maintains.
As the Commission of Accusation investigates criminally and disciplinaryly the magistrates of the high courts, the Supreme Court referred the case to the president of the legislative cell, Gloria Arizabaleta. Your office must distribute the file.
The Commission will have to assign a representative to decree the evidence and define the direction of the disciplinary investigation against Reyes.
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The history of clashes between Lombana and Reyes in the Instruction Room
It is not the only disagreement between Cristina Lombana and César Reyes, magistrate rapporteur of the house arrest of Álvaro Uribe in 2020.
In May 2025, Lombana asked to investigate Reyes because, apparently, he met with the lawyers of Sandra Ortizformer presidential advisor, whom he cited for the corruption scandal of the UNGRD.
Lombana is an investigator against the senator Julio Elías Chagüiof the U Party. According to the Prosecutor’s Office and witnesses, the man from Córdoba would have been a beneficiary of projects managed by the former minister Luis Fernando Velasco.
According to Lombana, Reyes met with Ortiz’s team to offer him benefits, an attribution that does not correspond to the Investigative Chamber.
And in August 2023, Reyes took on a process against the current Minister of the Interior, Armando Benedettifor alleged illicit enrichment, after the challenge against Lombana.
Source: Integrated Information System
