US investigating 3 more Colombian generals: El Tiempo .

Source: Colombia Reports

US investigating 3 more Colombian generals: El Tiempo .
Wednesday, 22 August 2012 07:41 Adriaan Alsema

Former President Alvaro Uribe's former security chief is only one of four retired Colombian police generals who are investigated by U.S. authorities for collaborating with paramilitary groups, newspaper El Tiempo reported Wednesday.

According to the newspaper, U.S. prosecutors hope that former police general Mauricio Santoyo's collaboration with U.S. justice will lead to progress in the investigations against three other retired generals, all from Antioquia, the home department of both Santoyo and Uribe.

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The U.S. flew the retired general's family from Colombia to protect them from possible retaliations before announcing Santoyo plead guilty to aiding terrorism.

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Television network Caracol reported last month that the case against Santoyo was only the "tip of the iceberg" and that the U.S. is investigating dozens of former Colombian officials for their ties to the AUC, which controlled most of Colombia's drug trade until its demobilization in 2006 and has been on the U.S. terrorist groups list since 2001.

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