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The The Attorney General’s Office presented its formal accusation against former President Álvaro Uribe, for the assumptions crimes of bribery and procedural fraud, within the framework of the trial that began against him in the 44th Criminal Court of Bogotá.
The head of the opposition, According to the thesis of the accusing body, he would have been the intellectual author of three alleged acts of bribery and two of procedural fraud, which also involve his former lawyer Diego Cadena.
It is worth remembering that the file began in the middle of a criminal litigation between Uribe and Senator Iván Cepeda, of the Historical Pact, in which the former head of state was suspected of paying bribes, through his lawyer, to buy witnesses who would speak against his political adversary.
In context: Judge rejected request for annulment and ordered to continue with the trial of former President Álvaro Uribe
The audience It began with a request from Uribe’s defense, which asked the judge to will cancel what has been done so far, considering that there were failures by the Prosecutor’s Office in the formulation of the accusation.
The judge rejected that request and then the accusing body made its accusation firm.
Read here: “They damaged my reputation and good name,” said Álvaro Uribe when requesting the annulment of his trial
In the same diligence, were recognized as victims in the process Cepeda himself, former prosecutors Jorge Perdomo and Eduardo Montealegre; and Deyanira Gómez, the ex-spouse of the witness Juan Guillermo Monsalve.
Find out: Iván Cepeda and three other people were credited as victims in the Álvaro Uribe trial, who are they?
What comes in the process will be the selection of evidence and witnesses, as well as the evidentiary debate between the parties, before the court issues its verdict.
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