Interpol confirms authenticity of captured FARC data

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BOGOTA (AFP) — Interpol confirmed Thursday the authenticity of a trove of computer documents seized from Colombia's FARC guerrillas which Bogota says prove close links between the rebels and Venezuela and Ecuador.

Interpol secretary general Ronald Noble announced in Bogota that the global police group had not found any sign that the data had been disturbed, altered or corrupted after the computers were seized in a March 1 raid by Colombian soldiers on a Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombian camp inside Ecuador.

"Based on our careful and comprehensive forensic examination of each of the eight seized FARC computer exhibits, and on consideration of all the evidence reviewed by our experts, Interpol concludes that there was no tampering with any data on the computer...