The request will be made while the entire process for the corruption case on Los Colibrís Avenue progresses.
The defense of the former mayor of Pereira, Carlos Alberto Maya López, will request in a hearing the change of the intramural insurance measure, which currently keeps him confined in La 40 Prison, under house arrest.
The request will be presented within the framework of the criminal process that he faces for crimes such as ideological falsification in a public document, obtaining a false public document, destruction, suppression or concealment of a public document, embezzlement by appropriation, contracting without compliance with legal requirements and malfeasance. by action, related to irregularities in the works on Los Colibríes Avenue.
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In this regard, the criminal lawyer, Renato Marín, indicates that This hearing will take place this Friday, December 20, where the defense based on solid evidence will seek the replacement of the intramural measure.
“Any person who is prosecuted within a trial, within a criminal process and in the specific case, of the former mayor, Dr. Carlos Maya does have some evidence and the defense considers that it is valid if it has to support whether it is a replacement of a measure, a change of a measure or a revocation of the security measure, since they have every right to make such a request,” said the lawyer.
He added that, “Let’s assume that the measure is changed, whether he or any of the people who are detained in this way will continue to ask for freedom at home.” under different conditions, obviously, or failing that, having the measures revoked will surely continue to be linked to the process is that the process is not over.”
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The criminal lawyer clarified that, if house arrest is granted to the defendant, This does not imply your freedom, as has been misinterpreted. He stressed that the criminal process is still ongoing and that, according to the estimated times of the Colombian justice system, the oral trial for the scandal of these works could take place in 2026, provided that everything progresses as planned.
