BOGOTA (AFP) -- European and Australian authorities have opened an investigation into the overseas links of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebel group, the Bogota newspaper El Tiempo reported Sunday.

Investigators are eyeing four Spaniards, two Italians, a Dane and an Australian for their ties to FARC, who have been behind drug trafficking and hundreds of kidnappings over four decades fighting the Colombian government, according to El Tiempo.
The Dane is connected to the establishment in Sweden of the Anncol news agency, which FARC uses to distribute its messages, it said.
In Italy, police have identified a person believed to be the FARC representative, El Tiempo said. It also reported that investigators have called on Interpol to help track down an Australian suspect.
The investigation follows the arrest in late July by Spanish police of a 57-year-old Spanish woman allegedly the leader of FARC's Spanish cell.
Maria Remedios Garcia Albert was arrested at her home in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, northeast of Madrid, police announced on July 26.
Spain's interior ministry said Garcia Albert had provided logistical support for FARC and had direct contact with Raul Reyes, the FARC number two who was killed by Colombian troops inside Ecuador earlier this year.
At her home, officers recovered a computer and documents, allegedly referring to the FARC.
In Bogota, the director of the national police force General Oscar Naranjo welcomed the arrest as an important breakthrough in the investigation of the FARC's links with Europe.
""This arrest is the start of a series of arrests which will take place in Europe, especially of people linked to the FARC,"" he told Radio RCN in Bogota, describing Garcia Albert as a member of the FARC's ""international commission"".
Using her position within a Spanish NGO, the Organization of Solidarity for Asia, Africa and Latin Americas, Garcia Albert had ""offered cover and logistical support in Spain to various leaders of the terrorist organization like Luis Edgar Devia Silvia (Reyes) and Ovidio Salinas Perez, alias Juan Antonio Rojas,"" the interior ministry statement said.
She was also tasked with coordinating contacts with FARC representatives in Switzerland and Sweden, it said.
The FARC, Latin America's oldest and largest insurgency, have been seeking to topple the government since the 1960s.