Information of peace negotiators with the FARC would have been intercepted
President Juan Manuel Santos ordered the investigation of an alleged illegal wiretapping of some of the government negotiators in the peace talks with the FARC by military personnel.
The result of this investigation determined the separation of two senior officers responsible for the management of the Army intelligence office.
The investigations were ordered by Santos after a denounce made by Semana magazine in which a place set as a restaurant and Internet room on a crowded commercial area of Bogotá would have been used to intervene private communications.
The publication revealed that the chief negotiator of the government, the former vice president Humberto de la Calle, the senior advisor for peace, Sergio Jaramillo, and senior presidential adviser for Reintegration, Alejandro Eder, would have been subject to interceptions of their emails and messages via PIN and Whatsapp of their mobile phones.
Get information about the peace negotiations between the government and the guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) that are being held in Cuba, would have motivated the interceptions to officials.