Colombia's fugitive ex-peace commissioner refuses to return
Colombia's fugitive ex-peace commissioner refuses to return
Monday, 26 March 2012 11:38
Arron Daugherty
The lawyer for Colombia's fugitive ex-peace commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo said his client wouldn't return to Colombia until the government could guarantee his security, reported La W Monday.
Last Friday Interpol lifted an order to capture Restrepo, despite the Colombian government's repeated requests for his return.
Restrepo fled Colombia January 8, where he is under investigation for his role in the 2006 "false demobilization" scandal during his tenure as the country's Peace Commissioner.
Restrepo is accused of working with imprisoned FARC guerrilla "Olivo Saldaña" and drug trafficker Hugo Rojas Yepez to pay homeless and unemployed people in the central Tolima department $278 each to train, live and act like FARC guerrillas, then surrender to security forces.
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