Colombia accuses Swiss diplomat of financing FARC

Xinhua News Agency | July 6, 2008 | Copyright

Colombia accuses Swiss diplomat of financing FARC

BOGOTA, July 6 (Xinhua) -- Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos has accused Swiss diplomat Jean Paul Gontard of giving 500,000 U.S. dollars, which were seized in Costa Rica, to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), local daily El Tiempo said Sunday.

"The only thing I want to ask Mr. Gontard is why he appears in the emails of Raul Reyes as bearer of the 500,000 dollars," Santos said.

Raul Reyes was the second-in-command of the FARC and was killed in an attack launched by the Colombian army in Ecuadorian territory, which ...

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