The Attorney General’s Office asked the court of Bogotá to knock down the conviction against former president Álvaro Uribe

The FM knew the appeal, which the Attorney General’s Office based on 81 pages, with which The control body asked the Superior Court of Bogotá to revoke the sentence that condemned the former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez at twelve years in house arrest for the crimes of procedural fraud and bribery in criminal action.

The application, filed by the delegated attorney for criminal investigation and judgment, Bladimir Crespo, argues that In the process, empty were evidenced in the assessment and evaluation of the probative material against former president Uribe, that the Prosecutor’s Office presented during the stages of preparatory and trial hearings.

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According to the document, at the trial, which extended for five months, The typicity of the behavior could not be established for which the exmandatario was accused. “It was not established beyond any reasonable doubt that former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez had the enforceable degree of knowledge to attribute the alleged responsibility as a determinant of each of the accused events,” the trade said.

Also, in dialogue with the FM, the delegate table explained that “the interceptions (between Uribe and his then lawyer Diego Cadena) They must be excluded because they do not correspond to the inevitable finding criteria“That is, in its criteria, justice should not examine the recordings even if they had been a mistake.

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“The test assessment ignored the presumption of innocence,” added the attorney, who concluded: “The manifested by the relatives of Juan Guillermo Monsalve was ruled out, Although they contradict their version about what happened at the Guacharacas hacienda and discard if they belonged to paramilitary groups. ”

Another of the arguments of the appeal suggests that In the analysis of the evidence played against the leader of the Democratic Center, the requirements were not met For Judge Sandra Liliana Heredia to condemn former president Uribe.

“Respectfully, I request the Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Bogotá, revoke the judgment of first instance issued by the 44th Circuit Court with Bogotá’s Knowledge Functionin the aspects that were subjected to dissent, “concluded the appeal, a prelude to the appeal that will file the defense of former president, Jaime Granados, on August 13.