With the statement of former president Álvaro Uribe on Monday, the declaration of more than 70 witnesses requested by the former president’s defense for the trial against him for alleged bribery to witnesses and procedural fraud.
Prior to the start of the trial, Juan Felipe Amaya lawyer of former President Uribe said that despite the more than 37 witnesses he called the stages, the videos, audios and documents, The Prosecutor’s Office failed to demonstrate its case theory in the sense that the ex -president has ordered to pay bribes to exparamilitaries to declare in their favor.
After being questioned by his lawyer Jaime Granados the former president Álvaro Uribe denied during the trial for having sent the lawyer Diego Cadena or another emissary to bribe exparamilitaries and witnesses to favor him with his statements.
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The former president Uribe insisted on the illegality of the telephone interceptions discovered by the Prosecutor A site that was supposedly used to theft of gasoline to finance the paramilitaries and the creation of the Metro of the Self -Defense Forces.
In addition, Uribe reported how he marked the date of June 14, 1983, when his father was killed by the guerrillas, When he was in the company of his two brothers, while he was entrenched in the kitchen of the Guacharacas hacienda, which was sold in July 1996.
Similarly, he denied that the property of more than 1,500 hectares that was also owned by his family known as La Manada, close to the Gaucharacas hacienda, has been sold to Luis Alberto Villegas in a context of paramilitarismas Reinaldo Villalba, lawyer of Senator Iván Cepeda.
He also assured that He never met, nor did he have any contact with Juan Guillermo Monsalve, And he denied that as head of state that he has intervened in any way to transfer this ex -paramilitary or the former Hilda Yaneth Niño, today processed by justice.
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Former President Uribe denied knowing Pablo Hernán Sierra, aka Alberto Guerrero and He described his statements as false in the sense that the ex -president received support from the exparamiltares and of the living, in addition that he was behind the foundation of the Metro de las Autodepenses block.
He emphasized that even in the telephone interceptions discovered by the Prosecutor’s Office, it has always been clear with all the people who relate it that their only intention is to tell the truth to the country.
