Ex-security chief willing to testify against Uribe: W Radio .

[Judi Lynn]

Ex-security chief willing to testify against Uribe: W Radio .
Wednesday, 26 September 2012 11:48 Esteban Manriquez

The jailed ex-security chief of former president Alvaro Uribe is willing to officially testify against his old boss and other senior officials, claimed W Radio Wednesday.

Uribe's former chief of security, Mauricio Santoyo, is willing to implicate the ex-president and other top officials, according to "highly credible" sources in the armed forces, said W Radio. It is alleged that Santoyo made the move in an attempt to secure a reduced sentence.

Santoyo is currently incarcerated in the U.S. for collaborating with the now defunct paramilitary group AUC. His convictions stemmed from acts of illegal wiretapping, intimidation, kidnappings and disappearances.

Santoyo also previously acknowledged accepting bribes from paramilitary members in exchange for giving them information about police operations being carried out against them.

More:
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/26208-ex-security-chief-willing-to-testify-against-uribe-w-radio.html

[midnight]

1. U.S. won't be investigating any Columbian police. That is an odd sentence...

[Judi Lynn]

2. The US charged this guy, a former police general, with assisting major Colombian drug traffickers

in moving huge blobs of cocaine to the U.S.

He turned himself in after disappearing for a while, will be sentenced later in November.

I think the writer meant to express the U.S. isn't currently investigating, to his knowledge. Santoyo was a high-ranking top cop himself.

[Bacchus4.0]

3. no, the link to the other story quotes the current Colombian police chief

stating that there is no US investigation of other police officials other than the security officer who is already jailed. The police chief's comments are in response to media reports that other Colombian police officials are being investigated by the US.

"Colombian media have indicated that U.S. authorities are investigating other Colombian officials and that the Santoyo case was "the tip of the iceberg." An opposition senator last week presented what he called evidence of another five officials with ties to the AUC, accusing Uribe of bring "a criminal apparatus" to the presidential palace when taking office in 2002."



http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/26080-us-not-investigating-colombian-officials-police-.html

[naaman fletcher]

4. This is impos

PP says that all these guys were spirited away to the US in order to bury them in the US prison system so that they would never testify against Uribe.


Need a link to all these posts? One was recent.


So, this story can't be true.