Álvaro Uribe Case: they deny annulment of the trial and the method continues

The forty fourth prison pass judgement on of Bogotá, Sandra Liliana Heredia, denied this Friday the request for annulment of the method towards former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe, investigated for alleged bribery of witnesses and procedural fraud.

This was once said by way of Heredia within the digital listening to during which he identified that the request of Uribe’s protection legal professional, Jaime Granados, “is really inadmissible, it should be rejected outright, a call towards which there’s no attraction.”

Granados argued his request that supposedly the trial may just now not continue as a result of Uribe does now not know what he’s protecting himself towards and that moreover, “there’s in truth, regardless of the approval, a real components of accusation.”

“Neatly, if any doubt arose when it comes to the accusation (towards Uribe), the answer was once to not invoke the annulment, however because the Superb Court docket of Justice emphasised, it’s suitable to invoke its explanation,” defined Heredia, who made an intensive exposition of the method.

He additionally identified that the protection arguments didn’t agree to the prison arguments to annul what was once executed within the other phases of the trial.

The togada additionally identified leftist senator Iván Cepeda as a sufferer within the case.

At lately’s listening to, the prosecutor dealing with the case, Gilberto Villarreal, added the fee of bribery to Uribe, which is added to these already charged with alleged bribery of witnesses and procedural fraud.

In keeping with the pass judgement on’s resolution, the method towards Uribe starts officially and if the pinnacle of the Democratic Heart is located to blame, he may just face a sentence of between 6 and 12 years in jail.

All over the digital listening to Uribe (2002-2010) intervened and confident that he’s blameless of the entire fees introduced towards him by way of the Prosecutor’s Place of business, that there’s no consistency within the case and that there’s no proof to end up the crimes of which he has been accused.