Cops sentenced for illegally wiretapping Supreme Court justice
Cops sentenced for illegally wiretapping Supreme Court justice
posted by Adriaan Alsema
Jul 3, 2013
A Bogota judge on Tuesday sentenced two policemen and a a public prosecution employee for the illegal wiretapping of a Supreme Court justice, a scandal in which Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe is implicated.
The three lower-ranked officials were sentenced to 11 years in prison for the illegal wiretapping of magistrate Ivan Velasquez, the Supreme Court’s former main investigator of ties between dozens of congressmen and paramilitary organization AUC.
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According to several government witnesses, the orders to illegally spy on officials and civilians came from the president’s office and were coordinated by the DAS, Colombia’s former intelligence agency that was closed down after the breaking of the scandal in 2008.
Former paramilitary commanders have testified that the wiretapping was part of a more elaborate conspiracy to discredit Velasquez and the Supreme Court, and others who were deemed inconvenient for the Uribe administration.
More:
http://colombiareports.com/cops-sentenced-for-illegally-wiretapping-supreme-court-justice/
(Hope rabs and dreyfus see this wherever they are.)
