Former Colombia governor helped paramilitaries, Los Pepes: AUC leader .
Former Colombia governor helped paramilitaries, Los Pepes: AUC leader .
Thursday, 17 January 2013 11:05 Olle Ohlsen Pettersson
The extradited leader of the defunct paramilitary group AUC, accused a former governor of having links to paramilitaries and of aiding the founders of "Los Pepes" -- the notorious vigilante group that helped hunt down Pablo Escobar.
The imprisoned ex-AUC chief, Salvatore Mancuso, claimed that Hugo Aguilar, governor of the northern Colombian department of Santander from 2004 to 2007, "helped Los Pepes in the war (against) Pablo Escobar."
Mancuso said that he "heard so many times" from several paramilitary leaders that Aguilar helped Carlos Castaño (one of the founder of Los Pepes) and alias, "Don Berna" in their quest to kill Colombia's most famous criminal.
Testifying before Colombia's Supreme Court of Justice via teleconference, the imprisoned paramilitary leader went on to claim that the ex-governor met with the AUC to discuss “military and political support” for his 2003 electoral campaign.
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