Uribe supported promoting disgraced ex-official: Former Police Chief .
Uribe supported promoting disgraced ex-official: Former Police Chief .
Wednesday, 16 January 2013 09:12 Narayan Buckley
Former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe allegedly supported promoting Mauricio Santoyo, who is now imprisoned for drug trafficking and having ties with paramilitaries, to top government positions.
According to Oscar Naranjo, Colombia's former director of National Police, Santoyo said that Uribe supported promoting him to head of the country's anti-kidnapping unit or the police intelligence unit.
"When the colonel (Santoyo) was finishing his course to become brigadier general, he personally told me that he aspired to the position of director of DIPOL (police intelligence unit) or GAULA (anti-kidnapping unit) and (that he) already had the approval of then president Alvaro Uribe," said Naranjo.
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President Santos on Monday claimed that Uribe personally recommended Santoyo for the two positions. The president's comments elicited a venomous denial from Uribe, who is also being investigated for reported ties to paramilitaries.
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