Ecuadorian Justice Minister Gustavo Jalkh Friday rejected a report by the International Police (Interpol) about analysis results on computers captured from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
"Interpol's report doesn't have credibility because once a custody chain is broken, everything that comes out later has a total discredit," Jalkh told local press.
"Public facts don't have to be proven and the fact that the custody chain is broken is obvious and doesn't have to be proven by any expert opinion," he added.
On March 1, Colombian troops bombed a FARC base in Ecuadorian territory and seized the computers belonging to FARC's No. 2 leader Raul Reyes, who was killed in the raid. Ecuador broke relations with Colombia after the event, claiming that the raid violated Ecuador's sovereignty.
Colombia filed a petition for the Interpol to study the FARC computers, which supposedly has contents showing links between Venezuelan and Ecuadorian governments and FARC.
Interpol's secretary general, Ronald Kenneth Noble, announced the results of the analysis on Thursday in Bogota, Colombia.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that Interpol actually made a "show" in Colombia by failing to prove any link between the Venezuelan government and Colombia's rebel groups.
It was a "joke" and a "charade" to link the Venezuelan government with the FARC group, Chavez told a press conference.
Ecuadorian political analyst Cesar Montufar said, based on the Interpol report, that the documents were not manipulated, but that doesn't mean its contents are true, he added.
A commission comprising independent experts with high credibility in Ecuador should be created to seek the truth about the computers, said the expert.
Source:Xinhua
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