Jorge Noguera Cotes

Jorge Noguera Cotes (born September 25, 1963 in Santa Marta ) is a Colombian lawyer and politician.

Life

Jorge Noguera was the campaign manager for former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez .

During Uribe's first term in office, he was appointed head of the Colombian domestic intelligence service Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad (DAS) in August 2002 . In October 2005, he resigned from the post. The reason for this were rumors that the DAS had been infiltrated by the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia . The head of the IT department of DAS, Rafael García, who was arrested in 2005, also accused his boss and then director of working with the paramilitaries. According to García, Noguera, as the director of the Uribe election campaign in the Magdalena department at the time, carried out electoral fraud in 2002 with the support of the right-wing paramilitary leader Rodrigo Tovar. Other people who later worked for the Uribe government were also involved. As a result, he was appointed as consul to the Italian Milan sent However, this feature had to mid-2006, post again as the allegations of a collaboration of THE accumulated with the paramilitaries. At the beginning of 2007 he was therefore banned from exercising public office for 18 years.

In May 2009, the Attorney General charged him with quadruple murder, abuse of office, manipulation and destruction of public documents. The trigger was the statement by Rafael García Torre . From 2005 to 2006 he was head of the IT department at DAS. He had handed over lists of names of left-wing activists and trade unionists to death squads, among whom Noguera, in the opinion of the court, was jointly responsible for the murder in 2004, at least in the Alfredo Correa de Andréis case . He had also shared intelligence information with the paramilitary group that helped AUC leaders escape. He had intensive contacts with the leader of the Bloque Norte de las Autodefensas , Rodrigo Tovar Pupo , who was sentenced to 26 years in prison for the murder of Correa de Andréis in May 2011. Noguera has also deleted criminal records and arrest warrants.

On September 14, 2011, the Supreme Court sentenced him to 25 years in prison.

Noguera was one of Uribe's close confidants. In 2006, when the investigations against Noriega were already underway, Uribe put his hand in the fire for him. Shortly after the verdict, Uribe asked his fellow citizens “to apologize”.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Ex-chief of the secret service of Colombia convicted. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . September 14, 2011, accessed September 15, 2011 .  
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Jürgen Vogt: Ex-chief of the secret service has to go to jail. In: the daily newspaper . September 15, 2011, accessed September 16, 2011 .  
3. ↑ Michelle Caldas Meyer: Ex-chief of the secret service has to go to jail. In: Quetzal. March 2008, accessed September 16, 2011 .  
4. ^ ^{A b c} Andreas Petermann: 25 years in prison for ex-chief of the secret service. In: amerika21. September 16, 2011, accessed September 16, 2011 .