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Andean Group - May 2010 (ISSN 1741-4466)
COLOMBIA: Presidency officials implicated in intelligence scandals
In recent years, Colombia's intelligence service, the Departamento
Administrativo de Seguridad (DAS), has been at the centre of numerous scandals
for its involvement in illegal activities. These include the creation of a
'parallel' intelligence unit paid for, and at the service of, some of the
country's most notorious paramilitary leaders as well as the “chuzadas scandal"
- the illegal monitoring, investigation and phone tapping of supreme justice
court (CSJ) magistrates, politicians, NGO workers, human rights advocates,
journalists and trade unionists. President Alvaro Uribe has so far been able to
dismiss allegations of his direct responsibility for the “chuzadas" against the
CSJ judges. However, an article by the investigative publication
Semana, published on 15 May, claiming that six unidentified DAS members
allegedly delivered reports containing illegally-obtained intelligence to
officials working directly for Uribe, is raising some new and embarrassing
questions for the President.
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