Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office asked to submit a document proving the former director of the country’s now-dismantled national security agency authorized the payment of an informant to follow ex-senator Piedad Cordoba, according to newspaper El Tiempo.
In the case against the former director of Colombia’s Department of Administrative Security (DAS), Maria del Pilar Hurtado, the prosecution has asked to present documentation indicating Hurtado signed off on a payment of more than $10,000 to a photographer to follow Cordoba while she was touring Europe in 2010.
The request was submitted in the preparatory trial against Hurtado and former President Alvaro Uribe’s Chief of Staff, Bernardo Moreno.
Both officials were implicated in the wiretapping scandal in which they allegedly illegally spied on Cordoba as well as supreme court judges, former congressman Yiddish Medina and the current mayor of Bogota Gustavo Petro.