Colombia prosecutor office wants to jail opposition campaign manager for hacking scandal
Colombia prosecutor office wants to jail opposition campaign manager for hacking scandal
Posted by Grace Brown on Sep 16, 2015
Colombia’s prosecution office wants the former campaign manager of the main opposition candidate in the 2014 elections to await his spy trial in jail.
Luis Alfonso Hoyos is hot on the Prosecutor General’s list as the mastermind behind the Andres Sepulveda hacking scandal, and is wanted for conspiring to commit a crime, violating personal data, abusively accessing a computer system and using malicious software and espionage.
Opposition hacker gets 10 years for spying on Colombia peace process
The accused has not attended any scheduled hearings in Colombia since leaving the country at the beginning of 2015, claiming that there were a lack of guarantees available. Computer engineer Sepulveda was arrested in May 2014, weeks before the presidential elections, for illegally wiretapping the peace talks between Colombia’s government and FARC guerrilla group in Cuba.
The hacker had been contracted by the Colombian presidential campaign of then-candidate Oscar Ivan Zuluaga of the Democratic Center Party, led by ex-President and Senator Alvaro Uribe. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison in April 2015.
More:
http://colombiareports.com/prosecutor-general-will-incarcerate-former-government-adviser-for-hacking-scandal/
