December 14, 2020
Colombia’s prosecution and an informant who would later falsely accuse a former rebel leader of drug trafficking for the DEA reportedly sought to derail the peace process since the beginning.
According to news website La Nueva Prensa, leaked recordings reveal that Marlon Marin was working for the prosecution before conspiring with the American counternarcotics agency.
The failed conspiracies led Colombia’s war crimes tribunal to order investigations into former Prosecutor General Nestor Humberto Martinez and multiple DEA agents in May 2019.
Prosecution sought to entrap list of pro-peace politicians
The prosecution and Marin, a nephew of the FARC‘s former political chief “Ivan Marquez,” conspired to link multiple politicians and officials who supported the peace process to bogus criminal investigations, an anonymous prosecutor told La Nueva Prensa.