In an unprecedented event, the former president of Colombia Álvaro Uribe Vélez was declared guilty for the crime of procedural fraud and bribery in criminal action
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This July 28 the country is pending call “Century trial” against former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez, who faces charges for alleged bribery to witnesses and procedural fraud.
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Judge Sandra Liliana Heredia, of the 44 Criminal Court of the Bogotá Circuithe has read the sense of failure From 8:30 in the morning, and being 5:47 it continues without knowing if it will be convicted, acquitted or if the judicial decision will be partial.
What has been made known as proven are the crime of procedural fraud.
What is procedural fraud and why is it key in this failure?
He procedural fraud It consists in erroring the administration of justice with false or manipulated information to obtain a favorable decision. In this case, the judge focused her analysis on the call “Tuso Sierra episode”fundamental piece of the judicial framework that led to the historic conviction of the ex -president.
The Tuso Sierra episode: the heart of procedural fraud
The extradited drug trafficker to the United States, Juan Carlos “El Tuso” Sierra, He was summoned in the process for an alleged attempt to manipulate his testimony.
Uribe’s defense claimed that the visits of journalist Daniel Coronell, former senator Piedad Córdoba and Juan Carlos Giraldo to Sierra sought to induce false statements against the former president.
However, the judge gave full credibility to Giraldo’s testimonywho claimed to have acted in journalistic interest, looking for a scoop, and not on behalf of political or judicial figures.
According to Sierra, he was offered judicial benefits in exchange for incriminating Uribe, on behalf of the then prosecutor Eduardo Montealegre and former ViceFiscal José Fernando Perdomo.
But the judge concluded that there was no solid evidence that these offers were real, and that there were maneuvers to present the judicial system a distorted narrative, constituting procedural fraud.
We would then enter the final stretch of this reading that has lasted 9 hours, The judge must give the final verdict in fraud processesLy bribery in criminal action.
The hearing continues at this time in the courts of Paloquemao, in Bogotá.
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