US judge orders declassifying files on extradited Colombian paramilitary chiefs
US judge orders declassifying files on extradited Colombian paramilitary chiefs
Apr 17, 2015 posted by Matthew Dancis
A federal judge in Washington called for the publication of classified documents pertaining to the extradition and subsequent prosecution and sentencing of three former AUC leaders, according to weekly Semana.
Federal Judge Ellen Huvelle called for the case to be reopened after former AUC leader Salvatore Mancuso’s lawyer, Joaquin Perez, requested that his client’s sentence be lowered.
Perez claimed that Mancuso, who was sentenced to 22 years in prison, deserved a lowered sentence due to his consistent cooperation with both the American and Colombian governments since his extradition in 2008, which helped respectively to stunt the trafficking of narcotics into the United States and demobilize the AUC in Colombia, reported Semana.
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The organization demobilized between 2003 and 2006. Mancuso and 13 other AUC commanders were illegally extradited to the United States in 2008 while he and his former partners were confessing crimes and revealing ties with the military and Colombian politics.
http://colombiareports.co/reopening-books-former-auc-leader-salvatore-mancuso/
