QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuadorean President Rafael  Correa never received funds from Colombian rebel group FARC,  his government said yesterday as he sought to refute the  content of a video aired on Colombian television.

A top FARC leader said in the video that the guerrillas  donated cash to Correa’s presidential campaign.

Ecuador denied that leftist Correa’s campaign got any money  from the FARC, which is branded a terrorist group by  Washington, and accused Colombia of launching a “media  offensive” against Correa.

The Colombian attorney general’s office said police were  investigating the statements in the video by Jorge Briceno  Suarez, known as “Mono Jojoy,” chief military commander of the  Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known by its Spanish  initials FARC.