The defense of former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez already announced the parties within the trial that follows against him -for alleged bribery, procedural fraud and bribery to witnesses – the order of witnesses they will call in the coming months to distort the accusations against them.
After the end of the hearings in which the witnesses of the Prosecutor’s Office were heard, With those who sought to prove the responsibility of the ex -president, Judge Sandra Liliana Heredia set for next Monday, May 5, at 8:30 am, the beginning of the evidence of Uribe Vélez’s defense.
The 75 names
Andrés Felipe Arias, Fabio Valencia Cossio, Hernán Cadavid and Diego Cadena. Photo:Private time/ file
THE APPROVED OF THE EXPRESSES -Jaime Granados and Jaime Lombana- reach this stage of the case with a battery of tests that were decreed after a pulse that ended in the Superior Court of Bogotá.
In total, they will be cited 75 people and the list is headed by former president who will declare on May 5 for several hours.
Time He met the complete list and in order of testimonies and followed by his brother, Santiago Uribe; His former Minister of Agriculture, Andrés Felipe Arias; and two lawyers that make up their defense team: Juan Felipe Amaya Mejía and Franklin Geovani Guevara Bernal (read down the 75 name in order).
Within your process and condemnation (for sure agroingreso), Arias was imprisoned in a Miami prison and there, he said, he knew key fates on the Uribe case on the part of several extradited exparamilitaries.
The other relative and former Fiscal Martínez
Juan Guillermo Monsalve, the aforementioned star witness against Uribe. Photo:Private archive
In The list of decreed testimonies also appears Senator Mario Uribe Escobar (Uribe Second Primo), prosecuted in the recent past by parapolitics; Former General Néstor Humberto Martínez and former Minister Fabio Valencia Cossio, who accompanied Uribe from the Antioquia Governorate.
In addition, the current magistrate of the National Electoral Council (CNE) Álvaro Hernán Prada appears (who advances the investigation by presents rapes of the Petro President 2022-2026 campaign; and the politician Rodrigo Lara Restrepo.
The latter is key because he accompanied Piedad Córdoba and Iván Cepeda to Visit to Exparamilitaries prisoners in the United States, including Salvatore Mancuso. With his testimony he wants to establish his commission – in which other people were – he requested or not to declare against Uribe Vélez and even his children.
In the issue of visits to prisons there is another person who is on the list of testimonial evidence.
The mysterious woman and the bosses
Mercedes Arroyave, key lawyer within the investigation against Álvaro Uribe. Photo:Time
It’s about Mercedes Arroyave Ardila, the so -called Lost Witness of the Uribe case.
Time He revealed in February 2021 that the 75 -year -old professional and a native of Medellín, appears accompanying Senator Iván Cepeda to several prisons in the country to speak with convicts who later ended up linked to the process against the former president.
Arroyave was attached to Juan Guillermo Monsalve, the so -called star witness of the case, and Pablo Hernán Sierra, which has said that the Uribe were co -founder assumptions of the AUC Metro block. But the criminal has never appeared to declare in the case.
For the former president’s defense, The professional is a witness to the exception of irregular activities advanced by Cepeda in the search for false witnesses against the Uribe, in exchange for alleged judicial benefits.
In this regard, Cepeda told El Tiempo at the time that the last thing he had known about Arroyave is that he had received serious threats.
Juan Carlos Sierra, aka Tuso Sierra, in a statement presented during the Uribe Audience. Photo:Video capture
On the list Time also found several bosses. One of them is Juan Carlos Sierra Ramírez, aka El Tuso, and Ramón Quintero, aka RQ.
In addition, Manuel Returate, Cuban American lawyer who has seized several Colombian bosses.
It will also be heard Hernán Cadavid, once an advisor to former President Uribe and today representative to the Chamber of the Democratic Center. About Cadavid the ex -president has said that he knows that he never instructed lawyer Diego Cadena to offer bribes in exchange for statements.
In fact, Cadena and his brother Álvaro are also cited in addition, María Claudia ‘La Caya’ Daza, former president of the president and a congressman whose phone confusingor the Court with that of the former president when ordering interceptions.
This is the complete list:
María Claudia Daza is a member of the URIB UTL Photo:Private archive
Testimonies decreed in your order
1. Álvaro Uribe Vélez
2. Santiago Uribe Vélez
3. Andrés Felipe Arias
4. Juan Felipe Amaya Mejía
5. Franklim Geovani Guevara Bernal
6. Mario Uribe Escobar
7. HUGO RAMIREZ
8. José Manuel Rodriguez
9. Ramón Quintero Sanclemente
10.Diego Pérez Henao
11.Diego Javier Cadena Ramírez
12. Henriquez Honorio
13.RUBY CHAGÜI SPATH
14. Juan Manuel Daza
15.Nestor Humberto Martínez Neira
16.MARÍA CLAUDIA DAZA
17. Juan Guillermo Monsalve
18.Deyanira Gómez Sarmiento
19. Hector Romero Agudelo
20.Luz Marina Pineda Muñoz
21.Martha Monsalve Pineda
22.oscar Monsalve Correa
23.oscar Monsalve Pineda
24. Juan Guillermo Villegas
25.Andrés Gonzalo Vargas Durán
26.Mercedes Arroyabe
27.FRANKLIN CASTAŃEDA
28.DIANA ASTRID FIGUEROA
29.Alvaro Hernan Prada Artunduaga
30.CARlos Fernando Salazar/Carlos Rojas Alfaro/Claudia Luque Díaz
31. Oscar Loaiza’s expert dictate
32. Juan Manuel Aguilar.
33. Roque Arismendi Jaramillo / Liliana María Correa.
34. Fabio Valencia Cossio.
35.Manuel returneta.
36. Juan Carlos Sierra Ramírez.
37. Rodrigo Lara Restrepo.
38.LISA M. RUTH.
39.Slvaro chain.
40. German Gómez Rojas.
41.Nohora Zuleta.
42.Hilda Jeaneth Child Farfan
43.Armando Farfan.
44. HERNANDO TORRES BARRERA.
45.PABLO ANTONIO CRIOLLO REY
46. Jorge Luis Ramírez Aragón.
47.Sofía Reyes Méndez.
48.Gisella Matamoros.
49. Fabián Rojas.
50. Carlos Enrique Vélez
51.Darley Guzmán Pérez.
52. Juan José Salazar Cruz.
53.Samuel Arturo Sánchez Canon.
54. Hernán Dario Cadavid.
55.Carlos Alberto Cruz.
56.Harlington Mosquera
57. CLARA AZUCENA LÓPEZ/ROQUE JULIO DUARTE.
58.Leonardo Hoyos Gómez/Michelle Alexander Montoya Zapata/Alba Lucía Vasco Campuzano/Cristina Cano.
59.Frank Giovanny Gutierrez.
60.WILSER DARIO MOLINA.
61. Leonardo de Jesús Agudelo.
62. RAMIRO DE JESUS HENAO SARMIENTO
63.Gabriel Muñoz Ramírez
64.Humberto Gómez Garro.
65.Mario Humberto Jimenez Salinas.
66.POO ANSWER AND AND.
67.jairo Espejo Rivera.
68.JOSÉ MIGUEL GIL SOTELO.
69. Raúl Agudelo Medina.
70.Luis Alipio Rodríguez.
71. Nicolás Jurado Monsalve.
72.JOSÉ DEL CARMEN GELVES.
73.Ancizar Barrios Lozada.
74.scar Álvarez Muñoz
75. Luz Mireya López Rodriguez.
76. Carolina Vargas Villamil.
77. EXPERIENCE DICTAMEN OF ANDRÉS DURÁN, JHONY CÁRDENAS AND SONIA SILVA M.
78. Daniel Ríos’s expert bank.
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