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Colombia's Supreme Court Orders Investigation of Former President over Spying Operation
Published 12 September 2017 (4 hours 52 minutes ago)
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Colombia's Supreme Court has ordered an investigation into former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez over his involvement in an illegal spying operation.
The court also convicted Jorge Noguera Cotes, the former director of Colombia's intelligence service agency DAS, for his role in the operation which allegedly wiretapped the court, human rights defenders and journalists.
The Supreme Court said in the ruling that it will send copies of the processes to the Committee of Accusations of the House of Representatives. If it finds merit in the preliminary court investigation, the committee will investigate former President Velez for the conduct referred to in the ruling.
Three of the four former intelligence chiefs of DAS, the now defunct-intelligence agency, are behind the bars in connection with the illegal spying operations. Noguera is serving a 25-year prison sentence for other crimes but has been pulled into the investigation for spying on the current House Representative Alirio Uribe and journalist Claudia Duque. His sentencing is expected to take three weeks.
More:
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Colombias-Supreme-Court-Orders-Investigation-of-Former-President-over-Spying-Operation-20170912-0022.html
