Former presidential candidate’s son paid almost $100K to ‘peace talks hacker’

Former presidential candidate’s son paid almost $100K to ‘peace talks hacker’
Jan 16, 2015 posted by Rebecca Florey



The son of one of the leading candidates in Colombia’s presidential elections last year paid almost $100,000 to a hacker who has admitted to spying on peace talks, weekly Semana reported Friday.

Semana received documents from prosecutors’ interrogation of the accountant of the campaign of Democratic Center (CD) candidate Oscar Ivan Zuluaga. According to Semana, a payment of $95,000 was made by Zuluaga’s son David to the brother of hacker Andres Sepulveda. However, this sum was never declared to the National Electoral Council and it remains unclear where the money came from.

A meeting today at the Prosecutor General’s Office will aim to decide the charges against two members of the CD, David Zuluaga and ex-presidential adviser, Luis Alfonso Hoyos, who are both implicated in the hacking scandal.

The scandal hit the media in May 2014, weeks before the first round of the elections, with the suggestion of an alliance between the Colombian political right and active elements of the military to derail the campaign of President Juan Manuel Santos using classified information on the talks between the Colombian government and the FARC, the country’s largest rebel group.

More:
http://colombiareports.co/former-presidential-candidates-son-payed-almost-100k-peace-talks-hacker/

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Right-wing "commie" witch hunter, (or so he thought, maybe) Senator Joe McCarthy, (dead now, due to chronic alcoholism) and his aide, Roy Cohn.[/center]