Jailed ex-Colombian intelligence chief faces new wiretapping charges .
Source: Colombia Reports
Jailed ex-Colombian intelligence chief faces new wiretapping charges .
Tuesday, 17 July 2012 10:01 Esteban Manriquez
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Jorge Noguera, currently serving a 25-year sentence for previous convictions, was charged with authorizing illegal wiretaps on journalists, judges, human rights activists and other public officials and will be tried before the Supreme Court.
The prosecution argued that Noguera made "illegal use of transmitters and receivers" to monitor political opponents of former President Alvaro Uribe.
Noguera was incarcerated in a Bogota jail in 2008 for three years pending his 2011 trial. In September of 2011, the Supreme Court sentenced the ex-DAS director to 25 years in prison for facilitating the paramilitary infiltration of the intelligence organization, criminal conspiracy and the illegal use of privileged information.
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The former DAS chief was also implicated in the disappearance of a number of trade unionists, however the charges were not upheld.
Alvaro Uribe appointed Noguera as head of the DAS after he managed the former president’s succesful 2002 election campaign. Noguera held the post until 2005.
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