Uribe’s 1st intelligence chief convicted for setting up illegal wiretap operation
Colombia’s Supreme Court on Monday convicted former President Alvaro Uribe’s initial...
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Jailed ex-Colombian intelligence chief faces new wiretapping charges
Prosecutors indicted the former director of the now-defunct Colombian national intelligence agency, DAS, on Monday for illegal wiretapping. Jorge Noguera, currently serving a 25-year sentence for previous convictions, was...
Former Colombian intelligence agency faces torture charges
Eight former officials of Colombia’s now defunct intelligence agency DAS will be questioned in connection with the psychological torture of an investigative journalist, the Prosecutor General’s Office announced...
Colombia’s ex-spy chief ceases cooperation with justice: Report
Disgraced ex-director of Colombia’s intelligence agency DAS Jorge Noguera, convicted for the paramilitary infiltration of the agency, has refused all cooperation with justice, Caracol Radio reported Wednesday. In an eight-page...
Shamed ex-DAS chief to appeal conviction
The legal defense of recently convicted Jorge Noguera, the former head of Colombia’s intelligence agency DAS, will look to appeal his guilty conviction and 25 year sentence, newspaper El Espectador reported Thursday. Jose...
Ex-Colombian spy chief sentenced to 25 years for paramilitary links
The Supreme Court has sentenced ex-DAS director Jorge Noguera Cotes to 25 years in prison for criminal conspiracy and illegal use of privileged information. Colombian media reported on Wednesday that the court ruled Noguera...
Former DAS director claims conspiracy against him
The former director of the Colombian intelligence agency (DAS) claimed in front of the Supreme Court on Thursday that the former prosecutor general and minister of the interior and justice joined forces against him to help...
Uribe camp wants me convicted to take the heat off them: Ex-DAS director
Jorge Noguera, the former head of Colombia’s intelligence agency DAS on trial for alleged ties to paramilitary death squads, told the court Monday that the former government of Alvaro Uribe wants him to be convicted so...
Prosecution orders arrest of former intelligence chief
Colombia’s Prosecutor General ordered the arrest of Jorge Noguera, a former director of Colombia’s state intelligence agency DAS, for the his alleged involvement in the illegal spying on government opponents....
Former VP ‘would swear’ Uribe didn’t order wiretaps
Former Colombian Vice President Francisco Santos said he would swear on the Bible that former President Alvaro Uribe did not order the illegal wiretaps carried out by intelligence agency DAS. In an interview with El Tiempo,...
