CARACAS, Jan. 13 (Xinhuanet) -- Venezuelan Vice President Jose Rangel announced Thursday that Venezuela has called back its ambassador to Colombia as Colombia admitted bribing Venezuelan security officials to capture a Colombian guerrilla leader.

    "For the moment (Venezuelan) ambassador (to Colombia) General Carlos Ramirez was called back," Rangel said, adding the foreign minister and President Hugo Chavez is considering issuing a formalcomplaint against Bogota.

    Rangel said that eight members of the military and three policeagents were arrested in the border area with Colombia for their presumed participation in the kidnapping of Rodrigo Granda, the so-called "foreign minister" of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

    Colombian Defense Minister Jorge Alberto Uribe said Wednesday that Granda was captured in Caracas last December and delivered topolice in the Colombian border city of Cucuta for a reward.

    Uribe was taking part in "a crime that could have internationalimplications. The rules are clear, in case there exists a person sought by the justice of a country, extradition is the adequate procedure," Rangel said.

    "Members of the Venezuelan armed forces have been bribed. How would the Colombian government react if Venezuelans bribed their police agents?" he said.

    FARC is one of the largest rebel groups in Colombia and has at least 17,000 combatants. Enditem