The trial against Álvaro Uribe this week, for crimes of bribery to witnesses and procedural fraud, has left several surprise statements. At the audience of Friday, April 11, the exparamilitary Eurídice Cortés Velasco, known with the alias of ‘Diana’.
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There the ‘Exara’ again involved the lawyers of former president Diego Cadena and Juan José Salazar, also mentioning Carlos Enrique Vélez, aka ‘Víctor’, as the person who offered him 200 million pesos in exchange for testifying in favor of Uribe.
‘Diana’ confessed that he was willing to testify against Iván Cepeda if he received the promised money, but as he did not occur, he made the decision to retract.
Likewise, the Prosecutor’s Office showed some recordings between the exparamilitar and Diego Cadena in which he asks for $ 300,000 and $ 400,000 to move to Bogotá. At the audience the woman acknowledged that the lawyer handed her two million pesos.
“I told him (to chain) that I had no money to come (to Bogotá) to give my version and I did not have to pay the tickets (…) I did not give them to change my testimony, I gave them to some passages,” Alias ’Diana’ said.
Punctually this point published it on its social networks both Senator Iván Cepeda and his lawyer Miguel Ángel del Río.
For their part, the same chain responded satirically.
“Senator Iván Cepeda, if I wanted to bribe a witness in the pillory, I would give him a farm, he would avoid transfers to Valledupar, he would facilitate a fiscal house, he would send computers, liquors, weapons, luxuries, cell phones, and even take food and women at home,” wrote the lawyer who is today accused and takes a process for bribery to witnesses.
At the moment the investigations are still on both former president Álvaro Uribe and his lawyer Diego Cadena.
