Colombia metes out sanctions in spy scandal

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Colombia metes out sanctions in spy scandal
By The Associated Press,

Monday, October 4, 2010 at 12:53 p.m.

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia's inspector general has barred ex-President Alvaro Uribe's chief of staff from public service for 18 years for his role in a domestic spying scandal.

Bernardo Moreno is among nine former senior officials - including three ex-chiefs of Colombia's DAS domestic spying agency - sanctioned Monday by Inspector General Alejandro Ordonez.

Several, though not Moreno, are currently imprisoned on criminal conspiracy charges.

Ordonez barred two former DAS chiefs - Jorge Noguera and Maria del Pilar Hurtado - from public service for 20 years and 18 years, respectively.

Noguera is jailed pending trial, accused among other crimes of providing far-right death squads with the names of union organizers, some of whom were killed.

Read more: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/oct/04/colombia-metes-out-sanctions-in-spy-scandal/

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http://www.radiosantafe.com.nyud.net:8090/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/noguera1.jpg

Former Uribe D.A.S. head, Jorge Noguera
fled the country, was returned to Colombia.