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### Viewing cable 07BOGOTA1903, VISAS VIPER MONTHLY REPORT: FEBRUARY 2007

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07BOGOTA1903 | 2007-03-23 18:06 | 2011-03-21 09:09 | SECRET//NOFORN | Embassy Bogota
Appears in these articles: http://www.semana.com/wikileaks/Seccion/168.aspx

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    id: 101791
    date: 3/23/2007 18:32
    refid: 07BOGOTA1903
    origin: Embassy Bogota
    classification: SECRET//NOFORN
    destination: 07BOGOTA1390
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    S E C R E T BOGOTA 001903

    SIPDIS

    NOFORN
    SIPDIS
    VISAS VIPER

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/23/2016
    TAGS: ASEC CMGT CVIS KVPR PINR PTER CO
    SUBJECT: VISAS VIPER MONTHLY REPORT: FEBRUARY 2007

    REF: BOGOTA 01390 AND PREVIOUS

    Classified By: CDA Milton Drucker, reason 1.5(d).

    ¶1. (U) Post's Visa Viper Committee met on March 7, 2007, and
    the meeting was chaired by the CDA, Milton Drucker.  Post's
    Viper Coordinator is Fraud Prevention Unit officer Jenny
    Cordell.

    ¶2. (C) Post's Visas Viper Committee submits Horacio Duque
    Giraldo, former advisor to then-Minister of Interior Horacio
    Serpa during the presidential administration of Ernesto
    Samper.  Duque was arrested on February 28, 2007 for his
    alleged ties to a drug trafficking organization that conducts
    business with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
    (FARC), a Named Foreign Terrorist Organization.  Reports
    characterize Duque as the right-hand man of FARC spokesperson
    "Raul Reyes," and Post's Drug Enforcement Administration
    (DEA) office confirms that, according to 2005 reporting,
    Duque is a finance man for the FARC.

    ¶3. (SBU) Name: Duque Girlado, Horacio
    DOB: 18-MAY-1954
    Colombian Cedula Number: 4406725
    Colombian Passport: PO47719
    Gender: Male
    CLASS Hits: None
    Subject's B-1/B-2 visa was revoked on March 7, 2007 under INA
    Section 212(a)(2)(C)(i).

    ¶4. (C) Post's Visas Viper Committee submits Denys (aka Denis)
    Silva Ruiz, who was arrested on February 18, 2007 for
    membership in and activities on behalf of the FARC.  Silva
    played a key role in a 1998 operation, negotiated by former
    Peruvian security chief Vladimiro Montesinos, wherein 10,000
    AK-47 rifles from Jordan were bought and transferred to the
    FARC.  Silva faces international drug and arms trafficking
    charges.  DEA confirms that Silva is a member of the FARC's
    16th Front.  Although there are CLASS hits which appear to
    correspond to Silva, Colombian security officials confirm
    that Silva's nationality and date of birth are different from
    those shown in CLASS.

    ¶5. (SBU) Name: Silva Ruiz, Denys (or Denis)
    DOB: 31-MAY-1969
    Peruvian Passport Number: 0679757
    Country of Birth: Peru
    Gender: Male

    ¶6. (SBU) Post's Visas Viper Committee submits Rosa Stella
    Ibanez Alonso, who was arrested on February 12, 2007, for her
    alleged involvement in diverting the equivalent of USD 2.7
    million in municipal funds to the United Self-Defense Forces
    of Colombia (AUC, a Named Foreign Terrorist Organization).
    Ibanez, the former Mayor of Soledad in Colombia's Casanare
    Department, remains in custody.

    ¶7. (SBU) Name: Ibanez Alonso, Rosa Stella (or Estella)
    DOB: 29-AUG-1969
    Colombian Cedula Number: 32828433
    Colombian Passport: AJ140391
    Gender: Female
    CLASS Hits: None

    ¶8. (S/NF) Post's Visas Viper Committee submits Bertulfo
    Trujillo Fuentes.  Post's Office of Regional Affairs (ORA)
    reports that according to Colombian Army Intelligence,
    noncommissioned officer Trujillo is actively involved with
    the FARC and has attempted to facilitate the kidnapping of
    several unit mates.  Until he was recently terminated from
    his post, Trujillo was a part of the Intelligence Unit, as
    well.

    ¶9. (SBU) Name: Trujillo Fuentes, Bertulfo
    DOB: 05-OCT-1969
    Colombian Cedula Number: 75001768
    CLASS hits: None

    ¶10. (SBU) Post's Visas Viper Committee submits Alvaro Araujo
    Castro, Colombian Senator from Cesar Department who, on
    February 15, 2007, upon the order of Colombia's Supreme Court
    of Justice, was arrested for his alleged ties to the AUC.
    Araujo has been charged with conspiracy and aggravated
    kidnapping.  Araujo remains in custody.
    ¶11. (SBU) Name: Araujo Castro, Alvaro
    DOB: 07-NOV-1966
    Colombian Cedula Number: 80411143
    Colombian Passport: PO038731
    Gender: Male
    CLASS Hits: None
    Subject's B-1/B-2 visa was revoked on December 22, 2006 under
    INA Section 221(i).

    ¶12. (SBU) Post's Visas Viper Committee submits Dieb Nicolas
    Maloof Cuse, Colombian Senator from Atlantico Department who,
    on February 15, 2007, upon the order of Colombia's Supreme
    Court of Justice, was arrested for his alleged ties to the
    AUC.  Maloof has been charged with conspiracy, and remains in
    custody.

    ¶13. (SBU) Name: Maloof Cuse, Dieb Nicolas
    DOB: 19-APR-1964
    Colombian Cedula Number: 8736863
    Colombian Passport: PO031658
    Gender: Male
    CLASS Hits: None
    Subject's B-1/B-2 visa was revoked on December 22, 2006 under
    INA Section 221(i).

    ¶14. (SBU) Post's Visas Viper Committee submits Mauricio
    Pimiento Barrera, Colombian Senator from Cesar Department
    who, on February 15, 2007, upon the order of Colombia's
    Supreme Court of Justice, was arrested for his alleged ties
    to the AUC.  Pimiento has been charged with conspiracy, and
    remains in custody.

    ¶15. (SBU) Name: Pimiento Barrera, Mauricio
    DOB: 17-MAR-1961
    Colombian Cedula Number: 19434067
    Colombian Passport: D031184
    Gender: Male
    CLASS Hits: None
    Subject's B-1/B-2 visa was revoked on December 22, 2006 under
    INA Section 221(i).

    ¶16. (SBU) Post's Visas Viper Committee submits Luis Eduardo
    Vives Lacouture, Colombian Senator from Magdalena Department
    who, on February 15, 2007, upon the order of Colombia's
    Supreme Court of Justice, was arrested for his alleged ties
    to the AUC.  Vives has been charged with conspiracy, and
    remains in custody.

    ¶17. (SBU) Name: Vives Lacouture, Luis Eduardo
    DOB: 10-DEC-1957
    Colombian Cedula Number: 12544261
    Colombian Passport: PO029013
    Gender: Male
    CLASS Hits: None
    Subject's B-1/B-2 visa was revoked on December 22, 2006 under
    INA Section 221(i).

    ¶18. (SBU) Post's Visas Viper Committee submits Alfonso
    Antonio Francisco Campo Escobar, Colombian Representative
    from Magdalena Department who, on February 15, 2007, upon the
    order of Colombia's Supreme Court of Justice, was arrested
    for his alleged ties to the AUC.  Campo has been charged with
    conspiracy, and remains in custody.

    ¶19. (SBU) Name: Campo Escobar, Alfonso Antonio Francisco
    DOB: 05-DEC-1966
    Colombian Cedula Number: 85449946
    Colombian Passport: PO038616
    Gender: Male
    CLASS Hits: None
    Subject's B-1/B-2 visa was revoked on December 22, 2006 under
    INA Section 221(i).

    ¶20. (SBU) Post's Visas Viper Committee submits Jorge Luis
    Caballero Caballero, Colombian Representative from Magdalena
    Department, whose arrest has been ordered by the Colombian
    Supreme Court of Justice due to his alleged ties to the AUC.
    Caballero has been charged with conspiracy, but has fled
    Colombia and is reportedly seeking asylum in Europe.

    ¶21. (SBU) Name: Caballero Caballero, Jorge Luis
    DOB: 21-APR-1967
    Colombian Cedula Number: 5056056
    Colombian Passport: PO034270
    Gender: Male
    CLASS Hits: None
    Subject's B-1/B-2 visa was revoked on December 22, 2006 under
    INA Section 221(i).

    ¶22. (SBU) The Visas Viper Committee also discussed the status
    of the Colombian Supreme Court investigation into  Colombian
    Senators' and Representatives' alleged ties to AUC
    paramilitaries and others involved in the "parapolitics"
    scandal (reftel).  Specifically, the Committee reviewed the
    cases of Alvaro Araujo Noguera, Jorge de Jesus Castro
    Pacheco, Miguel Angel Duran Gelvis, Hernando Cesar de Jesus
    Molina Araujo, Ciro Ramirez Pinzon, and Oscar Leonidas
    Wilches Carreno.  The Committee determined that additional
    information is needed before submission to Visas Viper.
    Given that these individuals are currently under criminal
    investigation, however, the Consular Section, in concurrence
    with the Visas Viper Committee, is taking action to revoke
    the visas of those who hold them, as these individuals
    currently pose a flight risk.

    ¶23. (SBU) The Committee discussed the cases of six sitting
    mayors who have been called for questioning by a prosecutor
    with the National Anticorruption Unit.  The mayors are under
    investigation for alleged ties to the ACC (Casanare Peasant
    Self-Defense Group), having signed a document in which they
    agreed to channel part of their towns' budgets to
    paramilitary coffers.  Those implicated include: Raul Cabrera
    Barreto, Mayor of Villanueva; Aleyder Castaneda Avila, Mayor
    of Monterey; Mauricio Esteban Chaparro, Mayor of Sabanalarga;
    Jorge Eliecer Lopez Barreto, Mayor of Tauramena; Henry Montes
    Montes, Mayor of Mani; and Leonel Roberto Torres Arias, Mayor
    of Aguazul.  The subjects' ties to the AUC and the
    circumstances under which they signed the document remain
    unclear.  As such,the Committee determined that additional
    information is needed before submission to Visas Viper.  None
    of the mayors currently hold visas, and CLASS Lookouts have
    been added for each of them.
    Drucker

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