Zuluaga and Uribe under fire after admitting wiretap suspect worked for campaign
Zuluaga and Uribe under fire after admitting wiretap suspect worked for campaign
May 6, 2014 posted by Philip Acuña
Colombian presidential candidate candidate Oscar Ivan Zuluaga and his political ally, former President Alvaro Uribe, were hit by a wave of criticism Tuesday after admitting to having hired a computer engineer who was arrested for spying on ongoing peace talks with rebel group FARC and possibly President Juan Manuel Santos.
The clandestine Bogota wiretapping facility — the second one seized in the past six month — was raided by prosecution officials earlier in the day, after which an arrested suspect was announced who was soon ties to Zuluaga and the political leader of his Democratic Center party.
The news caused a political tsunami after the prosecutor general confirmed that the room was used to surveil officials involved in the ongoing peace negotiations between the Colombian government and rebel group FARC, and said the communications of President Juan Manuel Santos were “probably” intercepted too.
Only months before, the Prosecutor General’s Office had begun investigating the wiretapping of the president after discovering another clandestine wiretapping facility accused of wiretapping the peace talks negotiators.
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