According to the Court the trial will be canceled, because the official accusation against Jorge Noguera wasn’t made by the Chief Prosecutor Mario Iguarán, but his assistent.The Court immediately demanded the irregularities to be investigated. It was unclear if the prosecution would refile charges against Noguera.Noguera was arrested in February 2007 and was the highest-ranking government official to be tried on links to the far-right paramilitaries. He was Colombia’s intelligence director for 2002 to 2005.Noguera’s lawyer demands his client to be compensated by the prosecution for the year he had spent in prison.
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