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The Superior Court of Bogotá This Tuesday, in the second instance, he acquitted former President Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010) for the crime of bribery in criminal proceedings, in its decision on appeal who presented his defense for a 12-year prison sentence that was imposed on him in August in a process that also includes the crime of procedural fraud.
“It was not directly or indirectly proven that Álvaro Uribe had instigated the crime of bribery in criminal proceedings (…) therefore the Chamber will revoke the sentence imposed on Álvaro Uribe Vélez as a determinant of the crime of bribery in criminal proceedings,” said Judge Manuel Antonio Merchán when reading the ruling.
The absolution It occurs in the case of alleged pressure on Carlos Enrique Vélez and Eurídice Cortésand the Court remains to rule, in the reading that has not yet concluded, on a third party involved in the same crime of bribery, the former paramilitary Juan Guillermo Monsalve, who is imprisoned.
Monsalve accused Uribe of having promoted the creation of the Metro Block of the paramilitary United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), and he assures that a lawyer for the former president pressured him in prison to retract what he said against the former president in the case that pits him against left-wing senator Iván Cepeda.
Judge Merchán stressed that The Court found an error of legal interpretation in the application of “possible fraud” as the basis for the first instance sentence, issued by Judge Sandra Heredia, of the 44th Criminal Court of the Bogotá Circuit, since the figure of criminal determination requires “direct intent.”
Uribe, founder and leader of the right-wing Democratic Center party, On August 1, he became the first former president of Colombia to be criminally convicted. after being found by Heredia guilty of the crimes of procedural fraud and bribery in criminal proceedings.
The former president faces this part of his trial in freedom after the Supreme Court of Justice in the middle of last month confirmed the decision of the Superior Court of Bogotá that released him until the sentence was final.
This case dates back to 2012, when Uribe sued Senator Cepeda before the Supreme Court of Justicefor alleged witness manipulation, while he was preparing a complaint in the Senate against him for alleged links with paramilitary groups.
The Court not only decided not to investigate Cepeda, but also opened proceedings against Uribe after finding evidence that he manipulated witnesses to avoid being linked to the paramilitaries.