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The Police Dijin has just finished sweeping the files of 51 cell phones seized during the raid on the Army Cyber Intelligence Battalion (in December 2019), in which evidence was found that it was ordered to delete digital information collected from this military garrison.
Among the mobile teams analyzed, traces of conversations were found that several uniformed men held prior to the judicial process, executed by order of the Supreme Court and by which evidence of a possible irregular use of military intelligence was obtained.
Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo announced other decisions.
Ministry of Defence
EL TIEMPO agreed to part of the Dijín report and there it is read that “the chats whose screenshots were published by Semana magazine and that speak of a possible magazine or raid on Bacib and the need to erase digital information, were held between 6 November and December 18, 2019 ”.
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The report consists of 201 pages, in which it is assured that said conversations were found on the cell phones assigned to second lieutenants Laura Álvarez Erazo and Franklin Estiven González Castillo, first corporal Néstor Andrés Díaz and deputy first sergeant Héctor Betancourt.
They talk about a possible magazine or raid on Bacib and the need to erase digital information
‘The invisible man’
This evidence is already in the possession of the Prosecutor’s Office and the Attorney General’s Office after it was transferred from the office of Judge Cristina Lombana, who ordered the raid within the file for the alleged relationship of the former president and senator Álvaro Uribe with the convicted hacker Andrés Sepúlveda.
In addition, this newspaper agreed to another report provided by the Special Investigation Group of the Office of the Attorney General, in which the name of the non-commissioned officer to whom the computer was assigned where the folder os Special Cases ’was found and which collects part of the profiles to national and foreign politicians, ex-military and journalists, appears.
It is the second sergeant Hernández Galván, who had been assigned a team with a 320 gigabyte (GB) Wstern Digital hard drive.
“It contains commercial emails regarding software called ‘Invisible Man’ and ‘Saber.’ This last information dates from January 2018. There is a requirement from January 2019 in which the creation of remote administration tools for Android and Windows is foreseen, ”is specified in the 309-page document dated May 4.
Invisible Invisible Man ’is the software that the Army acquired with a Spanish firm and that allows it to access all kinds of digital communication. The same, the institution was justified at the time, it was acquired to persecute illegal groups, but it was said that it was never officially used.
It is also stated in this report that a 750 GB Toshiba hard disk found “intelligence information of apparently legitimate targets and information from various countries”, and it is reported that there were copies of the passports of several people, including the former president Ernesto Samper, who has already publicly asked for explanations.
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On the evidence collected during the raid, EL TIEMPO revealed this Sunday that another package of information was also found that corresponds to national security issues and that they have even been escalated to the Presidency by members of the Army. These appear in the folders named ‘Rosa’, ‘Lirio’ and ‘Dalia’.
In fact, it is in this context that Judge Lombana admitted to EL TIEMPO a meeting with the Army Commander, General Eduardo Zapateiro, that it was held in Bogotá in January – weeks after the raid – and that, according to her, it took place within the framework of institutional cooperation established by Law 600.
For now, the Court, the Prosecutor’s Office and the Office of the Attorney General are completing the analysis of the information found in the Cyber Intelligence Battalion and are preparing to make substantive decisions, in a file that has cost 12 senior Army officers the head and has giving explanations to several more.
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