Colombia expelled "deserter" who was spying for Maduro – ElSol.com.ar – Diario de Mendoza, Argentina

A Venezuelan police officer who pretended to be a deserter and surrendered to the Colombian authorities will be deported for allegedly doing espionage and killings. represent a risk for this countryofficial sources informed.

"We have control filters to check that these people are good, they come to do good to our country, they do not use the intelligence services, to do activities that could put our security at risk," said the director of Cúcuta to the press. Colombia migration, Christian Krüger.

He explained that on the Tienditas Bridge, where Colombia stores tons of humanitarian aid for Venezuela, A woman was identified who "wanted to remove information from our procedures, from everything we do here in Colombia, to serve this population that is settling in our country".

Members of the National Directorate of Intelligence, the Colombian army and the police are involved in this control work, added the official.

Krüger said that this woman "will be subject to the most severe immigration sanction" and will not be able to enter Colombia for ten years.

"We obviously have a confidential and confidential intelligence report, but it's the document that we need as immigration authorities to proceed in accordance with our legal framework"he said.

Migration Colombia badured that the Venezuelan citizen, who will be deported tomorrow, was identified with the pseudonym of "Pau Pau" and added that the woman's statement showed "a series of inconsistencies", although she had baderted that she was fleeing the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro "

"By comparing the statements of the 28-year-old woman with human sources, it was possible to show that his interest was very different from the one he had expressed and that on the contrary he represented a risk to national security and that of his fellow citizens."Migración added.

According to figures from this entity, 567 Venezuelan soldiers have defected since February 23, when an international coalition tried unsuccessfully to introduce food and medicine to Venezuela to alleviate the crisis in that neighboring country.

The highest number of desertions was recorded by Migración Colombia in its regional branch of Oriente, where 415 people registered. This seat covers the departments of Santander and Norte de Santander, whose capital is Cúcuta, where the Tienditas bridge is located.

Forty-six Venezuelan soldiers arrived at the Migración Colombia headquarters in the Orinoquia region, which includes the border departments of Arauca, Guainía, Vaupés and Vichada.

On the other hand, in the department of La Guajira (north), the number of deserters in uniform is 30, while in the rest of the Caribbean region, there were 23 soldiers.

30 new deserters have arrived in the Andean region. At the headquarters of the Migración Colombia in Antioquia, whose capital is Medellín, the total number is 14. At the same time, in the department of Nariño, bordering Ecuador, nine Venezuelan soldiers.