Prosecutors Friday charged an alleged member of the Basque separatist group ETA of training members of the Colombian guerrilla group FARC in computer science, reported newspaper El Tiempo Friday.
Iraitz Guesalag was arrested in France Tuesday and will be extradited to Spain for his role with the ETA and for collaborating with the terrorist organization FARC in while in Venezuela.
He “has been in Venezuela on at least two occasions” and “on of the trips (between September 11 and October 11, 2008) he moved into the jungle to instruct ETA refugees and FARC members in information encryption computer programs,” according to a document released by the Spanish high court.
When Guesalag and his girlfriend Itxaso Urteaga were in Venezuela they allegedly met with Arturo Cubillas, a senior official in the Venezuelan Ministry of Agriculture and suspected member of ETA who is assumed to be responsible for coordinating the Spanish terrorist group with the FARC.
Spain issued an extradition request for Cubillas in March 2010, charging the Venezuelan official for his ties to ETA, which the Venezuelan government denies.