The FARC were paid $2 million for the release of Chinese hostages, tweeted former president Alvaro Uribe Thursday.
Former president Alvaro Uribe has claimed via the social networking site Twitter that the FARC were paid $2 million for the release last month of kidnapped employees of the Great Western Drilling Company, contractors to the UK-based oil company Emerald Energy. Uribe did not specify who exactly had made the payment or the source of his information.
Urgente: hay recibos, pruebas, que la FARC cobró 2 millones de dólares por la liberación de los secuestrados chinos
— Álvaro Uribe Vélez (@AlvaroUribeVel) December 14, 2012
The employees, three Chinese citizens and their translator, were kidnapped in June last year. They were released and handed over to the Red Cross on November 22 in San Vicente, Caqueta.
President Juan Manuel Santos has said that foreign companies who pay money to illegal armed groups will be expelled from the country.
