Zuluaga’s campaign manager goes missing as criminal charges take shape
Zuluaga’s campaign manager goes missing as criminal charges take shape
Jan 19, 2015 posted by Piotr Wojciak
The campaign manager for Colombia’s leading opposition candidate in the 2014 elections has left the country in the wake of charges linking him over to illegally wiretapping ongoing peace talks to favor the opposition’s chances in the eventually lost campaign.
Former diplomat Luis Alfonso Hoyos, the campaign manager of former presidential candidate Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, has been accused of orchestrating the illegal wiretapping carried out by the arrested hacker Andres Sepulveda, with the aim of obtaining compromising information to be used against President Juan Manuel Santos in the 2014 presidential campaign.
According to the Caracol newscast, Hoyos left Colombia on Sunday evening. His political affiliates from the Democratic Center (CD) party are reportedly unaware of his current whereabouts.
The mysterious disappearance of the former political adviser’s comes just a few days after the Semana weekly publication revealed that the Prosecutor General Office’s Office is in possession of videos, audio recording and documents linking Hoyos with the spying allegedly carried out by hacker-turned-government witness Andres Sepulveda.
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As revealed now, Sepulveda has accused the Zuluaga campaign, and specifically Hoyos, of enlisting him to sabotage the aspirations of fellow right-wing political heavyweight Francisco “Pacho” Santos, an ally of CD leader Alvaro Uribe and the cousin of President Juan Manuel Santos.
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