Former senate president risks jail over illegal wiretaps (Colombia)

[Judi Lynn]

Former senate president risks jail over illegal wiretaps
Tuesday, 17 May 2011 15:07
Toni Peters

The Supreme Court may order the former senate president Nancy Patricia Gutierrez to be taken to jail for her alleged involvement in the illegal wiretapping scandal.

The request for the arrest of Nancy Patricia Gutierrez will be presented to the Criminal Court for allegedly illegally obtaining from intelligence agency DAS information about the a visit of former senator Piedad Cordoba to Mexico.

A former sub director of DAS Martha Ines Leal said before the Prosecutor General’s Office that she gave illegal surveillance information about Cordoba to Gutierrez. This information by was used by Gutierrez in a debate against Cordoba for supposed links to “parapolitics”.

“Maria del Pilar (Hurtado) asked me to hand over information to Nancy Gutierrez ... so that she would have information that would support a debate that Congress was going to have regarding what was in the apartment of the senator (Cordoba)” said Leal.

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