Colombia seeks extradition of former spy chief

COLOMBIA will ask the president- elect of Panama , Juan Carlos Varela, to lift the asylum granted to the former former spy chief María del Pilar Hurtado.by President Ricardo Martinelli.

In a TV Interview in Colombia, President Juan Manuel Santos confirmed that when the new government takes office in Panama on July 1,he will formalize the extradition request of the former.Director of the Administrative Department of Security (DAS )m hiding in Panama.

Hurtado fled to Panama in December 2010. Evidence gathered from several former members of the DAS point to her as a key player in a wiretapping scandal affecting judges, NGO’sjournalists and opposition politicians during the presidency of Alvaro Uribe and her testimony will be key to determining the origin of the orders to the intelligence agency , According to El Tiempo.
In the same process against Hurtado also accused is Bernardo Moreno, former general secretary of the Presidency in the second term of Uribe.