He former President Álvaro Uribe I would receive, in the first instance, A sentence of 12 years in prison in house arrest. That is the essence of the 114 pages document in which the Judge 44 Knowledge of Bogotá, Sandra Herediahe considered the former president of the crimes of procedural fraud and bribery in criminal action responsible.
The conviction will not be executed because the ex -president’s defense anticipated that the decision will appeal. The case will go to the Superior Court of Bogotá.
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“Condemn Álvaro Uribe Vélez to the main sentences of 144 months or what is the same, 12 years in prison, a fine equivalent to 2,420 minimum wages, and disqualification for the exercise of public rights and functions, as the main sanction, of 100 months and 20 days, as a criminally responsible determinant of the crime of bribe He presented in the motivated part of the sentence, committed in the circumstances of time, mode and place that the paginary gives account “mentions the document.
Álvaro Uribe
In a 11 -hour hearing, Judge Heredia presented some details of her sense of ruling, which is composed of more than 1,114 pages and That it will be useful for the defending lawyers of the former president to support, in the next few days, the appeal against two of the three positions accused of the Prosecutor’s Officeand that is that the Antioquia politician ended up being acquitted by simple bribery.
The Uribe case
In 2018, the Supreme Court of Justice decided to open an inquiry to then Senator Uribe because he would have tried, through Diego Cadenabribed witnesses to declare in favor of them, separating him from links with paramilitarism. The former president, from the first moment, declared himself innocent of such accusations.
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It was until 2020 when Uribe resigned from his seat in the Senatecausing your case to pass from the court to the Attorney General’s Officeentity that, after two preclusion requests, ended up leading it to trial. For 67 days, different witnesses appeared before the office of Judge Sandra Heredia to give their versions, with which he put together a verdict of the first instance.
Judge Sandra Liliana Heredia
In a period of 67 days, Different witnesses presented themselves to the office of Judge Sandra Heredia to give their versionswith which he armed a first -instance verdict.
“The Attorney General of the Nation has accredited the punishable conduct and the participation in the quality of Mr. Álvaro Uribe Vélez in the crimes of procedural fraud together and bribery in criminal action with respect to the witnesses Juan Guillermo Monsalve, Eurídice Cortés Velasco and Carlos Enrique Vélez Vélez”, Explained the judge, in charge of the 44th Court of Knowledge.
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Jaime Granados, a criminalist who heads the defense of who was president of the Republic between 2002 and 2010He said for the newspaper the time that since Monday they have been studying the appeal, and that it should be noted that his client maintains the presumption of innocence because there is no definitive failure.
“He has been very active in his defense, with all due respect, giving example, and with all the confidence that the appeal must prevail, and justice will shine because Colombia is a country of institutions“The lawyer said.
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