Colombia’s former spy chief fled to Costa Rica, new extradition request in the making

[Judi Lynn]

Colombia’s former spy chief fled to Costa Rica, new extradition request in the making
Aug 5, 2014 posted by Adriaan Alsema

Judicial authorities in Bogota have asked Costa Rica to extradite Colombia’s former intelligence chief after learning she had fled Panama, where she was recently refused political asylum.

The former director of now-defunct intelligence agency DAS, Maria del Pilar Hurtado, reportedly left Panama in June, weeks before that country’s Supreme Court nullified the disgraced official’s political asylum.

Former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli had granted the asylum after Colombian authorities filed a search warrant over the former official’s alleged involvement in the wiretapping of the Supreme Court, human rights workers, journalists and politicians deemed inconvenient for former President Alvaro Uribe, Del Pilar’s immediate superior at the time.

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Martinelli is a personal friend of Uribe.

However, under Panama’s new president, the country’s authorities examined the validity of the asylum which was repealed in July.

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[Louisiana1976]

1. Hope Costa Rica extradites Hurtado so she can face justice.