Surprisingly, the former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez announced this Friday, May 2, which renounces the prescription of the process against him since 2014 for allegedly having knowledge about the facts surrounded by the follow -ups and interceptions to the peace negotiators in Havana, Cuba.
This Friday, the Attorney General asked a judge of knowledge of Bogotá to prevent the case for the crime of concert to aggravated crime.
This, considering that the term established by law was fulfilled to continue investigation. However, he announced that the process will be followed in front of the positions of use of software Malicious, violation of personal data and access to a computer system (all aggravated).
Faced with this request, the ex -president asked for the floor and laid his position before the arguments presented by the delegate of the Attorney General.
“I beg you not to accept this preclusion request. I allow myself to renounce the prescription and I will only give one reason, Mrs. Judge: It is approved that I learned these issues when they appeared in the media. I never had participation, ”said the ex -president.
This taking into account that he had already asked to file his process for all crimes when considering that there was no evidence to link him to the Acts of research.
In his defense, the former president has assured for a decade that he never had knowledge of these facts and for which several people who worked in the presidential campaign of Óscar Iván Zuluaga were linked.
Faced with this request, andThe lawyer Jaime Granados Peña Who represents the former president, asked Judge 51 of knowledge to issue a decision as soon as possible.
“The Doctor Álvaro Uribe Vélez With the delays of the justice system to respond to his claim, ”said the jurist.
In this regard, he pointed out that it is necessary to know a background pronouncement in front of what has happened this Friday andí evaluate legal alternatives and strategies.
“If the one who would be a beneficiary of the prescription has made express reference to the fact that he renounces it, considers the technical defense that the only thing that would proceed would be to pronounce on that particular, in the sense of saying that, since it is his right, it is accepted, and in which case the exercise of the criminal action will continue, as there is no other alternative,” explained the penalist.
Former President Uribe was linked to an investigation in 2014 for having alleged knowledge of the actions that the call would have advanced Hacker Andrés Fernando Sepúlveda Ardila, who would have been contacted by members of the presidential campaign of Oscar Iván Zuluaga to obtain privileged information and thus imply a discredit campaign against the peace process he advanced The candidate-president Juan Manuel Santos.
The Sepúlveda hacker was sentenced to ten years in prison for these events, while Oscar Iván Zuluaga archived the investigation and, in two instances, Justice acquitted Luis Alfonso Hoyos Aristizábal, who served as the spiritual advisor of the presidential campaign.
