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In the next few hours, as soon as his release ticket is sent to Inpec, Jorge Aurelio Noguera Cotes will leave the ‘parapolitical’ ward of La Picota prison, after paying 13 years in prison of the 25 to which he was sentenced for the homicide of Professor Alfredo Correa de Andréis, a ruling that was added to the 7-year sentence for the DAS ‘jabs’.
Before coming to DAS, Noguera, a lawyer born in Santa Marta, was not a well-known man at the national level. At the end of the 90s, in his resume he added positions as advisor to the Government of Magdalena, secretary of the Regional Autonomous Corporation of that department and general secretary of the Port Society of Santa Marta, among others.
That is why he was seen as a man with more experience in public administration until 2001 and 2002, when samarium he became Álvaro Uribe’s campaign manager in Magdalena.
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Without much experience in security or intelligence work, On August 16, 2002, he was installed by Uribe as director of the then Administrative Intelligence Department (DAS), that at the time had about 7,000 civil servants, reason why its name began to gain relevance. Noguera entered that institution after six years in which the DAS was run by policemen.
After his arrival, Noguera criticized the handling that the uniformed officers had given the institution, which he described as atrophied, stating that it was more at the service of the Police than of strategic intelligence.
In 2004, with two years at the institution, Noguera spoke of giving the DAS a roll, which at that time was turning 51 years old. He also supported the so-called anti-terrorist statute to hit the then FARC guerrilla, and the new Accusatory Penal System.
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In those years, the lawyer led the DAS as his deputy director to José Miguel Narváez, who last year ended up sentenced to 30 years in prison for the murder of journalist and humorist Jaime Garzón.
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It was not until 2005 that a scandal of the ties that Narváez and Noguera had with paramilitarism was uncovered, for which Narváez was removed from office by Uribe, who declared him unsubstantiated. The scandal led to a confrontation between Noguera and Narváez, which ended with the former’s resignation from the DAS in October of that year.
Noguera left office after complaints from media such as Semana and Cambio magazine, and because of the allegations made by the former head of the DAS system, Rafael García, who, seeking legal benefits, told the Prosecutor’s Office that Noguera had strong ties to paramilitaries and that the DAS used to favor that illegal armed group, speaking of an infiltration of the Self-Defense Forces in that intelligence organism.
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Even García – who was sentenced at that time to 16 years in prison – said that Noguera had ordered him to erase files and records of several people wanted by the justice, and said that he had close relationships with some of the maximum leaders of the paramilitaries, such as Rodrigo Tovar Pupo, alias ‘Jorge 40’ and Hernán Giraldo.
By November 2005, days before Uribe announced that he would be a candidate for presidential re-election and the official payroll was frozen, he made several changes. Among them, he named Noguera’s replacement, Andrés Mauricio Peñate.
But after leaving the DAS, Noguera did not leave public life but was appointed by the Uribe government as consul in Milan (Italy).
From Italy, he had to travel to Colombia in April 2006 to give testimony in the Public Prosecutor’s Office for the accusations against him of links with paramilitarism, accusations that Noguera denied, stating that if he had met with them, it was in the middle of the conversations. and demobilization of those groups.
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In the middle of the scandal, then-president Uribe came out to defend him, pointing out that Noguera had seemed to him “a good boy and from a very good family.”
On May 9 of that year, after Mario Iguarán’s Prosecutor’s Office announced that it had opened a formal investigation against Noguera for alleged electoral crimes, the Presidency of the Republic said that it had accepted the consul’s resignation.
Noguera was captured in February 2007 and then was released for habeas corpus, until July of that same year, when he was arrested again for conspiracy to commit a crime. indicating him as a collaborator of the Self-Defense Forces in the departments of the north coast of Colombia.
In 2008, the Attorney General’s Office disqualified him due to ties and exchange of information with paramilitaries from the Northern Block of the Self-Defense Forces. And in July 2009, Noguera went to trial before the Supreme Court of Justice, becoming one of the first officials of the Uribe Government to have serious accusations for his ties to paramilitarism. The voluminous file indicated that he was illegally following human rights NGOs and of being the determiner of the murder of Professor Alfredo Correa de Andréis.
Two years later, in 2011, He was sentenced by the Supreme Court of Justice to 25 years in prison for three crimes: conspiracy to commit a crime, homicide and falsehood for concealment and revelation of secrecy. In that case, he was sentenced for giving the former paramilitaries the name of the sociologist professor Alfredo Correa de Andreis so that he could be assassinated.
And in 2017, he was sentenced to 7 years in prison by the Supreme Court of Justice for the DAS ‘blows’. That condemnation pointed to the creation in the DAS -between March 2003 and October 2005- the Special Intelligence Group (G3), which dedicated itself to intercepting and monitoring journalists and opposition activists of the Uribe government.
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