"A Chilean court on Tuesday [June 30] sentenced former head of the Army Intelligence Directorate (DINE), retired General Schafik Nazal, and former Santiago Court of Appeals judge Juan Poblete to five years of intensive supervised probation in connection with an investigation into illegal phone surveillance targeting a journalist and former military officials.
The investigation by Chile's Public Prosecutor’s Office established that between 2016 and 2018 Nazal and Poblete used falsified court orders to authorize the illegal wiretapping of phones belonging to journalists and whistleblowers reporting irregularities within the army, including civilians and former military officials, in violation of Chile’s intelligence law.
The investigation found that the surveillance was carried out under the pretext of alleged national security threats that were never proven to exist."
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Translated with AI assistance and edited by Alejandro Martínez-Cabrera.
