The Court Court against the former President Álvaro Uribe which was carried out on Tuesday in Bogotá was suspended after the defense of the ex -president interposed a guardianship action (resource for amparo) by the supposed one “rape“From the right to”due process“
“There is no other alternative to the office to suspend this procedural act and it would be a waste of time for everyone to say that we continue at two in the afternoon, because we are not certain (…) that a measure is going to be accessed and Much less to a guardianship action“The Judge 44 Knowledge of Bogotáwhich takes the case.
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However, the Togada said that the trial against the ex -president, accused of the crimes of bribery, procedural fraud and bribery in criminal action, will resume next Thursday at 8:30 am
Álvaro Uribe
Defense position
Uribe’s defense presented a guardianship action against the 44 Criminal Court of the Bogotá Circuit considering that the fundamental rights of due process and access to the administration of justice of the ex -president are being violated.
His lawyers, led by Jaime Granados, made a “Urgent request for provisional measures“They include”suspend the procedural action“Until the guardianship is resolved and left what happened at the first trial hearing, held last week.
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Uribe, meanwhile, He insisted on Monday’s hearing that the cause against him has a political origin and that he is not guilty of the crimes that imputes him.
The ex -president hopes “Justice realizes that Álvaro Uribe here did not ask to lie or bribe or deceive justice“
Álvaro Uribe
Long complaint
The long complaint goes back to 2012, when Uribe sued for alleged witness manipulation to the left -wing senator Iván Cepedawhich at that time prepared a complaint against him for alleged links with paramilitarism.
Contrary to what is expected by Uribe, the Supreme Court of Justice He did not open investigation against the congressman and, on the other hand, began a process for the ex -president for the manipulation of witnesses.
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The trial began last Thursday after the Superior Court of Bogotá admitted as evidence the interceptions made in 2018 the Supreme Court to Uribe.
The former president resigned in August 2020 to his senator’s seat to stop being aggroced and his case will pass to ordinary justice And then the Prosecutor’s Office decided that there was no evidence to prosecute him judicially.
Therefore, he requested the preclusion of the case twice, which was denied by both the Courts of First Instance presented and by the Superior Court of Bogotá, until last year the Prosecutor’s Office decided to accuse him.
EFE
