Sources in the military and judicial police warned that an attack on the Attorney General was being prepared ColombiaFrancisco Barbosa, National Liberation Army guerrilla (THEN), the country’s top investigative body said on Tuesday.

The announcement comes after August 3 last year, Six-month bilateral ceasefire comes into force between the government and the PLA, which is the greatest achievement in the peace negotiations of President Gustavo Petro to end the armed conflict.

According to information received by the prosecutor’s office, in July a meeting was held between the five ELN high commands in Venezuelawhere members of the insurgent group train to carry out an attack with snipers.

“It is a modality that is part of the modus operandi armed attacks by this groupaccording to the evidentiary information collected by the prosecutor’s office in the course of the various investigations that are being carried out,” is excluded in the statement of the prosecutor’s office.

Barbosa publicly opposed many of the peace promises made by Petro, the country’s first left-wing president, including pending legislation that would reduce prison sentences that criminal gangs surrender, admit their crimes and offer compensation to the victims.

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“Similarly, sources indicate that people close to the pseudonym ‘El Rolo’ are submitting suspicious reports of transactions in excess of 3 billion pesos (about $748,000), in flows of money that are similar to the attack on General Santander’s Police Schoolin January 2019,” the document says.

Twenty-two cadets participated in that ELN car bomb attack.

There were no immediate comments from the Venezuelan government or the ELN.

ELN has about 5800 members., including some 2,800 fighters, and security sources have previously said members of the rebel group are present in Venezuela. (rts)