25 Colombia Military, Police Sanctioned for Spying on Peace Talks

25 Colombia Military, Police Sanctioned for Spying on Peace Talks
Caracas,
Saturday
January 31,2015

BOGOTA – Colombia’s armed forces expelled five of its members and removed 20 others from their current duties over their suspected role in spying operations targeting the government’s peace process with the FARC guerrilla group.

Three officers, a non-commissioned officer and a patrolman, all members of the army or National Police and all implicated in the leaking of classified information, have been removed from active service, armed forces inspector general Vice Adm. Cesar Augusto Narvaez said.

Among those removed from their current duties are 10 officers, eight NCOs, a patrolman and a non-uniformed official, the inspector general said, adding that those individuals may be excluded from the intelligence branch if such action is deemed appropriate.

The decision comes after an armed forces probe into the involvement of soldiers and police in a military spying ring that was code named “Andromeda,” a separate illegal wiretapping operation headed by hacker Andres Sepulveda, and the leaking of secret intelligence documents, as well as the creation of a purported database with e-mails of politicians and journalists linked to the peace process.

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