The Superior Court of Bogotá denied on Monday the request made by the defense of the former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe of a provisional measure to suspend house arrest of the ex -president, sentenced in the first instance to twelve years in jail for procedural fraud and bribery in criminal action.
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The Court resolved, given the precautionary measures requested by the former president’s defense, “not decree the provisional measure” and warned that before this decision “Resources do not proceed.”
However, This corporation continues to study the guardianship action (Auto of Amparo) filed by Uribe’s lawyers, who request the immediate freedom of their client.
“The requested provisional measure will not be accessed to decree, which in any way means that from this providence the meaning of the ruling that will be issued when the present action is resolved, which must be preceded by the elements of judgment that in a timely manner will have to take up,”explained the court.
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Álvaro Uribe
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The lawyer Jaime Granados, who filed the action of guardianship on Monday, considered in his appeal that the sentence of August 1 “Fundamental rights such as human dignity, due process, the presumption of innocence and the freedom of Dr. Álvaro Uribe Vélez.”
In that direction, the legal team of Uribe, who ruled Colombia between 2002 and 2010, Ask those rights to be covered and the execution of the sentence is suspended while the appeal process progresses.
Uribe, 73 and founder of the right -wing party Democratic Center, He was sentenced in the first instance to twelve years in jail in home regimeat a fine of more than 3.4 billion Colombian pesos (about 822,000 dollars) and disqualification for more than eight years for the exercise of public functions.
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Sympathizers of former President Álvaro Uribe outside Paloquemao Judicial Complex.
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Judge 44 Criminal of the Circuit of Bogotá, Sandra Heredia, It also ordered Uribe’s immediate arrest Because the ruling will still be appealed to the Superior Court of Bogotá, which must rule in the second instance no later than next October.
Heredia extended in two days, until August 13, the deadline for Uribe’s defense to present the appeal of the conviction.
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