Andrés Felipe Arias Leiva

Andrés Felipe Arias Leiva (born 4 May 1973) is a Colombian economist, sentenced to 17 years and 4 months of prison for a corruption scandal during his time as Minister of Agriculture. He served as the 8th Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Colombia from 2005 to 2009, and was a candidate for the Conservative Party nomination in the 2010 Colombian presidential election, ultimately losing to Noemí Sanín Posada.

Arias was under preventive detention from 26 July 2011 to 14 June 2013, he was held pending a resolution of the case brought forth by the Office of the Attorney General against Arias charging him with "peculation and conversion in favour of third parties" in relation to the "AIS": Agro Ingreso Seguro scandal. He has since fled the country. He and his family then sought asylum in the United States. On July 17, 2014, Andres Felipe Arias Leiva was sentenced to 17 years in jail by the Colombian Supreme Court for the AIS scandal.

In July 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit rejected Arias's appeal against an extradition order by a federal district court, and he was delivered to Colombian authorities to begin his sentence. Provided by Wikipedia