In what appears to be a new episode of friendly fire in the government of Gustavo Petro, The Investigative Unit of EL TIEMPO established that several of the revelations that are now coming out about shady and million-dollar contracts and an alleged hacker in the National Intelligence Directorate (DNI), are recorded in a joint report that was left on the desk when the De La Espriella government arrived.
A sector of ‘pureblood’ Petrism told this newspaper that They had already been detecting irregular decisions in the administrations of Manel Casanova, Carlos Ramón González and Jorge Arturo Lemusthe first three directors of the entity.
They even claim that René Guarín, who was in the entity during the last months of the Petro government, certified copies to the Prosecutor’s Office, the Attorney General’s Office and the Comptroller’s Office so that four key issues could be investigated: the Intelligence and Counterintelligence Information System that was attempted to be implemented, the hiring of the recently captured systems engineer Carlos Andrés Oyola Tovar, the purchase of a million-dollar drone that ended up damaged (revealed by the Investigative Unit of EL TIEMPO on August 22, 2026) and even the adaptation of a couple of headquarters.
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Access to classified information
Former heads of the DNI, René Guarín, Jorge Lemus, Carlos Ramón González, Manuel Casanova and Petro. Photo:Private file
“Mr. Carlos Oyola, captured last Friday by the Prosecutor’s Office, was hired in the DNI since the administration of Manuel Casanova. But, as EL TIEMPO already said, he had been in the 2018 Petro campaign as a volunteer electoral witness. The trust they had in him was such that he was given access to all the intelligence and counterintelligence missions carried out by the DNI so that he could mount them in the information system that never worked.“said the high-ranking Petro government source.
Among other missions, he learned of all the approaches with the mafia and with leaders of criminal organizations, the profiling of senior Army and Police officers and, it is now believed, infiltration and espionage plans for right-wing politicians and former presidents.
“The Prosecutor’s Office sent a letter to the DNI asking for his location and was told that he was still linked to the entity because he presented excuses from EPS and had mental health problems or that he had been robbed. But both the Prosecutor’s Office, the Attorney General’s Office and the Comptroller’s Office were informed. that he had not made the deliverables of the information system and that is how it remained in the connection report,” said the same source.
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Spying on former presidents
UNP trucks. Photo:THE TIME
And regarding the alleged plan to spy on former presidents and former vice presidents of the Republic through the assignment of high-end vans, altered with spy systems, he stated that it is false that the alleged plan had been carried out.
“On June 3, 2026, the then Ministers of the Interior, Armando Benedetti; and Defense, Pedro Sánchez, signed a resolution in which it was established that motor vehicles for the protection and security scheme of former presidents and former vice presidents “They will be assigned by the Ministry of National Defense, the Military Forces, the National Police, the National Protection Unit and the National Intelligence Directorate, ask them why that decision was made,” said the source.
And he added that in the case of the DNI, not a single vehicle was purchased and therefore it was not assigned to any high-ranking former dignitary: “There was neither time, there were two months left before the Petro government ended, nor resources, so, on the DNI side, no van was purchased.”
The same source added that the 4 points that the control organizations were asked to investigate, They are related to the administrations of Casanova, Carlos Ramón González and Jorge Lemus.
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