The lawyer Diego Cadena, who represented former president Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010), was sentenced on Friday-August 15-in the first instance for bribery in criminal action of a paramilitary.
The lawyer will remain released until the amount of the penalty that will be imposed on him is known, which will be until September 30.
However, The judge acquitted him “for reasonable doubt” of two other crimes of which he was accused in this trial, directly related to the case by which the ex -president was sentenced to twelve years in house prison for The crimes of bribery in criminal action and procedural fraud.
“Diego Javier Cadena Ramírez acted in a malicious way, as it has been pointed out and according to the evidence practiced in an oral trial knew that (the paramilitary) Juan Guillermo Monsalve had no intention of giving statements that were required and nevertheless offered him the appeal for review to induce him to miss the truth“The judge said when reading the ruling against the lawyer.
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For that reason, the Togado imposed “condemnatory failure against Diego Javier Cadena Ramírez“, although he did not announce the penalty or issued an immediate arrest warrant against the lawyer.
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Chain guilt
The former president Uribe, through the lawyer chain, bribed the Paramilitary Monsalve. Cadena visited Monsalve in jail and asked him to sign a document in which he affirmed that the accusations he had made against Uribe for alleged links with paramilitarism were false and that they had been made by legal benefits or pre -open benefits offered by the left senator Iván Cepeda. In return, Cadena offered him, with authorization of the ex -president, free legal aid to Monsalve and better prison conditions.
On the other hand, the judge acquitted this Friday to Cadena, “by virtue of the principle of presumption of innocence” and “for a reasonable doubt“, of the crimes of bribery in criminal action and procedural fraud to exparamilitary Carlos Enrique Vélez.
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The former president Uribe, founder and leader of the right -wing party Democratic Center, became last August 1 in The first former president of Colombia to be criminally convicted, after Judge Sandra Herediaof the 44th Criminal Court of the Circuit of Bogotá, will find it guilty for these two crimes in the so -called ‘Judgment of the century’ in Colombia, a case that he himself began in 2012.
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Heredia acquitted him from the crime of simple bribery, but sentenced him to twelve years in house prison for having paid in 2018, through the chain lawyer, to former prisoners in exchange for not linked to the right -wing paramilitarism that fought the leftist guerrillas in the Colombian armed conflict.
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