Cesar Mauricio Velasquez, press secretary to former President Alvaro Uribe, was interrogated by public prosecutors about his alleged role in the wiretapping of government opponents.
Velasquez, who is currently Colombia’s ambassador to the Vatican, arrived at the prosecutor general’s main office in Bogota where he was summoned to respond to accusations from DAS officials that he was personally informed about the illegal wiretapping of Supreme Court judges, journalists, politicians and human rights organizations by state intelligence agency DAS.
The scandal caused international outrage and has led to Uribe’s former chief of staff and one DAS director, who fled to Panama to seek asylum, being barred from public office.