10 Facts About Jorge Noguera

Jorge Noguera held the position as chair of the DAS throughout Uribe's first term as president, Uribe would later name him as a consul-general in Milan during his second administration as president.

Jorge Noguera later resigned to his post after the Colombian weekly magazine Semana revealed that judiciary investigations linking him to paramilitary groups were currently taking place.

On 22 September 2007 Jorge Noguera was arrested under charges of conspiracy to commit crime and murder.

Jorge Noguera was named as one of the executive directors for Alvaro Uribe's presidential campaign in the Caribbean coastal department of Magdalena in 2002.

One week after his appointment under Uribe's presidential campaign, Jorge Noguera was appointed head of the Administrative Department of Security for the next four years until his assignation as consul-general in Milan during Uribe's second term as president.

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On 23 March 2007, Jorge Noguera was released from detention because of procedural flaws after his lawyer was able to prove that, that his client's detention did not take place as specified by law – making Jorge Noguera's arrest illegitimate since he was denied of this fundamental right.

Jorge Noguera was taken into custody for a second time on 6 July 2007, three months after his previous release.

Jorge Noguera was released from custody while waiting for yet another trial to be held against him while the Supreme Court sent forth copies of Iguaran's findings to the Commission of Accusations, a committee led by the Chamber of Representatives to investigate the irregularities in the proceedings held against Jorge Noguera.

On December 12,2008 Jorge Noguera was arrested; the public prosecutor's office accuses him of homicide and conspiracy to commit crime.

Jorge Noguera was sentenced to 25 years in prison on 14 September 2011.