Drug lords ‘benefited’ from peace deal’

BOGOTA: Colombian media reported on Sunday that 25 drug traffickers had tried to slip through the hands of the courts under a peace accord with FARC rebels. The jailed traffickers were on a list of people allowed to benefit from special alternative sentences under the accord, newspaper El Tiempo reported. It quoted government peace commissioner Rodrigo Rivera as saying that any FARC member found to have helped drug traffickers get on the list would lose his benefits under the accord.