On the afternoon of Tuesday, November 9, a judge will define if he sends to prison the noted hacker of the National Intelligence Directorate (DNI), Carlos Andrés Oyola, captured last Friday.
The former official is accused of having irregularly accessed classified information and attempted to manipulate the last presidential elections in what is considered abusive access to data on electoral processes and strategic intelligence.
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The role in the DNI
Capture of Oyola Tovar, in Neiva. Photo:Gaula
The Investigative Unit of EL TIEMPO revealed this Monday that In one of the reserved hearings of the case, it was noted that an official from the Prosecutor’s Office He irregularly entered the Accusatory Oral Criminal System (Spoa) of the prosecuting entity to extract information about the processes against Oyola.
EL TIEMPO located Jorge Lemus, director of the DNI during part of Gustavo Petro’s government, to ask him about Oyola’s roles and who had brought him to the entity.
“He arrived before I was director of the entity. They hired him in February 2024 when Alberto Casanova was the director of the DNI”Lemus assured EL TIEMPO
And when this newspaper asked him what the functions of the noted hacker were during his administration, he provided relevant information.
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Pilots and trucks
Manuel Casanova, former director of the DNI. Photo:ID
“He was assigned to the area in charge of updating the entity’s Integrated Intelligence and Counterintelligence System (SIIC) because what was wanted was for the contractor not to have the domain of that tool that was the one in which the missions and reserved topics were recorded,” said Lemus.
And he added: “Oyola managed to deliver some pilots of the update of that tool. But they were saying that the platform was of no use and I don’t know if he delivered it or not because I left the entity last January and I know that the last director of the previous government, René Guarínhe prohibited the entity’s officials from approaching me. I had no way of finding out what was happening. What I know is that the report on that matter was recorded in an investigation by the DNI inspection.”
Lemus also said that he did not participate in the preparation of decree 0563 of June 3, 2026, with which the DNI was included among the entities that participate in the assignment of vehicles to care for former presidents.
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Ricardo Rey Rosanía, director of counterintelligence of the DNI. Photo:Private file
The former head of the DNI also assured that the house from which Oyola supposedly blew up was not that of the National Intelligence Directorate: “No official lived in those houses, only counterintelligence agents who were in charge of guarding the properties remained there. That department was in charge of Ricardo Rosaníaas well as the handling of vehicles with anti-drone devices”.
On that last issue, Lemus said that the vans and devices were purchased based on the decree that gave life to the counterintelligence area for presidential protection.
And about the attempt to manipulate last elections, Lemus said he had no knowledge.
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