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Alvaro Uribe calls charges of procedural fraud “political revenge”

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Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe convicted in this Wednesday recent accusation from the prosecutor’s office for alleged crimes of witness tampering and procedural fraud This is nothing more

Alvaro Uribe calls charges of procedural fraud “political revenge”

Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe convicted in this Wednesday recent accusation from the prosecutor’s office for alleged crimes of witness tampering and procedural fraud This is nothing more than “political revenge”.

This trial has been postponed due to political presumptionsfor the purpose of political revenge, without evidence that I tried to bribe witnesses,” the former Colombian president said in a video published on his official social media profile.

Uribe also expressed doubt that this “manipulation” against him is happening at a time when Colombian government promotes so-called “peace plan” end confrontation with armed groups.

At this point, the former president suggested that the plan of Gustavo Petro’s government involved justify forgiveness members of armed groups – “like they already did with the FARC” – with “the fiction of forgiveness for those of us who have not committed a crime”.

Luz Adriana Camargo, Attorney General of Colombia. Photo: X (@InesBetancur1).

On the other side, Uribe attacked Colombia’s attorney generalLuz Adriana Camargo, and put her directly in touch with Defense Minister Iván Velázquez, with whom she admits she does not have a very good relationship.

The Colombian Prosecutor General’s Office announced this yesterday. will summon former President Uribe to trial on charges of witness tampering and procedural fraudan investigation for which the former president already months ago assumed he would be tried.

The ministry emphasized that will not require an arrest warrant against the former president, who will thus be free to defend himself in an oral trial, the date of which is not yet known, according to information collected RKN Radio.

Alvaro Uribe, former President of Colombia. Photo: Reuters.

Uribe already reported last October that The country’s authorities refused to archive the process initiated against him for alleged witness tampering and said he would be tried at some point.

The case began in 2012 when Uribe accused Senator Iván Cepeda of having him tour the country’s prisons to testify falsely against him. emergence of paramilitary groups in the Antioquia region.

However, several versions suggested that the former president’s lawyers sought to manipulate witnesses so they targeted Cepeda, so the latter turned from accused to victim, unlike Uribe, the plaintiff, who was investigated.

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Source: Aristegui Noticias

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