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Prosecution asks court to convict former Uribe aides over wiretapping scandal
Oct 7, 2014 posted by Matthew Sterne
Prosecutors on Monday formally requested Colombias Supreme Court to convict two former aides of ex-President Alvaro Uribe allegedly involved in a plot of tracking and wiretapping journalists, judges, congressmen and human rights defenders.
In its final speech before the ruling, the prosecution asked the court to convict Uribes former chief of staff, Bernardo Moreno, and the former director of now-defunct intelligence agency DAS, Maria del Pilar Hurtado.
Prosecutor Maria Victoria Parra gave a detailed account of the research process which advanced against Moreno and Hurtado and the developing case against the wiretapping calls.
According to the prosecuting body, there is no doubt that the actions of the two former officials were outside the law and, therefore, requested that these two individuals be declared responsible for the crimes of conspiracy, unlawful communication and abuse of public office. Both are facing a sentence of up to 15 years in prison.
MORE: DAS wiretapping scandal
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Moreno said that President Alvaro Uribe requested information on trips to Venezuela of former Senator Piedad Cordoba, a staunch leftist and ally of late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.
More:
http://colombiareports.co/colombian-prosecutors-pushing-conviction-two-senior-former-officials-wiretapping-case/
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)They seem to have the atavistic notion that the government lacks the right to wiretap whoever they want, whenever they want.
Judi Lynn
(160,707 posts)You'd think the billions of US taxpayers' hard-earned tax dollars stuffed into their government coffers would have been able to educate them more on the way to get things done.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,707 posts)And, the U.S. is just the business-friendly country to do it! Continually!