Felipe Muñoz, director of Colombia’s intelligence agency DAS denounced Tuesday the existence of a cartel of private detectives who wiretap telephones and carry out industrial espionage. The intelligence chief had…
Three police officers were involved in the illegal wiretapping of phones of Supreme Court magistrate Ivan Velasquez, the National Police announced Tuesday. According to a press release, the officials all…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office ordered the release of two former deputy directors of the Colombian intelligence service DAS, who had been apprehended on wiretapping charges. Alberto Lagos and Fernando Tabares,…
Colombia’s National Police commander, Oscar Naranjo, admitted Tuesday that phones of Supreme Court magistrate Ivan Velasquez were unjustly wiretapped by police and prosecution investigators. The illegal wiretap had been denounced…
The phones of a Supreme Court magistrate in charge of the ‘parapolitics’ investigations were illegally wiretapped from the Prosecutor General’s Office, the Prosecutor General himself denounced. According to PG Guillermo…
Colombian president Alvaro Uribe said Saturday that criminals are plotting revenge to discredit Colombia and its government. Addressing a community council in the city of Armenia, the president rejected allegations…
Amid a scandal involving illegal spying on government critics, Colombia’s domestic intelligence agency DAS will be dismantled and a new agency will be set up to focus on intelligence and…
President Alvaro Uribe says he is in favor of eliminating Colombia’s scandal-plagued domestic intelligence agency DAS and transferring its functions to the police. Washington’s top ally in South America has…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s office will stop the investigations against three former directors of intelligence agency DAS on their alleged role in the wiretapping of government critics, newspaper El Espectador reported…