He is ‘HackerFiscalía’, the Colombian who denounced Ambassador Fernando Sanclemente for drug trafficking

After the controversy generated by the discovery of three laboratories for the processing of cocaine found in the Haras de San Fernando farm, located in the municipality of Guasca, and owned by the former Colombian ambassador to Uruguay, Fernando Sanclemente, The Office of the Attorney General of the Nation will summon the former diplomat to give his version of the events and acknowledge whether he knew about the existence of the so-called narcofinca.

The information that the Prosecutor’s Office is considering to investigate the fact at this time corresponds to the testimony of the former butler of the estate, who in principle was going to accept the crimes and assume criminal responsibility under the law.

However, the case of the former Ambassador Sanclemente already had a history in international justice, this on account of the investigations carried out by citizen Richard Maok Riaño Botina, better known on the Internet as ‘HackerFiscalía’.

Riaño was a detective for the Technical Investigation Body (CTI) of the Prosecutor’s Office in 2002, during the administration of the then Attorney General, Luis Camilo Osorio Isaza. Thanks to his computer skills, he became known under the name ‘HackerFiscalía’ and his profile gained relevance after having discovered and denounced the paramilitary infiltration in the Prosecutor’s Office, Police, Army, DAS, INPEC and Congress.

After making these complaints, Riaño was fired from the institution and convicted by the Supreme Court for leaking confidential information, which led him to request political asylum in Vancouver, Canada, where to date he is in charge of reporting drug trafficking scandals, violence and corruption, in addition to requesting donations to support his investigations and request refuge to protect the integrity of activists, social leaders, victims or witnesses, they share complaints and confidential information with him.

Well, the ‘HackerFiscalía’ confirmed via Twitter that on January 4, 2020, he reported to the United States Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) the former diplomat and former Director General of the Civil Aeronautics of Colombia between 2005 and 2010, Fernando Sanclemente.

He denounced him for alleged irregularities in the conclusion of a contract for the supervision of the works for the modernization of the El Dorado Airport in Bogotá. He also points out that he allowed the shipment of 10 tons of cocaine from Colombia to Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán in Mexico, while he was director of Aerocivil in the second government of former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez.

The complaint of the accommodation and shipment of drugs at the Bogotá airport was recorded on video by the ‘HackerFiscalía’. There he also draws attention to the importation of a plane from the Air Cargo Lines company in Mexico:

According to Richard, the complaints he made to the US authorities allowed him to find the whereabouts of the narcofinca with which the Colombian Prosecutor’s Office found on February 13, 2020 three laboratories for the processing of cocaine in the Sanclemente property in Guasca, Cundinamarca:

Taking into account the background of Fernando Sanclemente, who during the operation had the alias of ‘Velero 1’, the ‘HackerFiscalía’ used tools such as Signal, Telegram, Line and Protonmail to receive and send documentation that allowed him to report the former ambassador to the American authorities.

Riaño Botina joined the CTI of the Office of the Prosecutor in 1999 and lasted three years there. Among his supposed results, it stands out that he discovered the location of the secret communications servers of the Farc and tracked the emails of ELN collaborators.

He also analyzed the electronic agenda of the paramilitary Jorge Iván Laverte, alias El Iguano, where he found indications of his influence on officials of the Police, Army, DAS and INPEC in 2002. Now from his residence in Canada Richard is in charge of investigate and reveal corruption scandals such as the one that has the former Colombian ambassador in Uruguay in the eye of justice today.