The evidence of the defense begins in trial against former president of Colombia Álvaro Uribe

Son Around 70 witnesses that have been known by the defense of Uribe that will call in this trial, including relatives, politicians, former high level officials, lawyers, experts and ancient drug traffickers.

The Assistance of the former president at this trial has passed mostly in a virtual manner, however, This Monday, May 5, he did it in person appearing as a witness. During your speech, Uribe denied having sent the lawyer Diego Cadena or another emissary to bribe exparamilitaries and witnesses to favor him with his statements.

This Second stage of the trial, begins after ending on Tuesday, April 29, the part corresponding to the witnesses of the Prosecutor’s Officewhich included the statement of Carolina Vargas, former nationalist of the Technical Investigation Corps that analyzed telephone interceptions, made to the former governor’s cell in 2018, in which according to the Prosecutor’s Office, They show the attempts of the lawyer Diego Cadena, to obtain testimonies in favor of Uribe, through pressures or material offerings.

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In the stage of the trial already concluded, Testimonies of exparamilitaries were collected that indicated alleged links of the former Colombian president with the emergence of armed groups, which activated outside the law in the country, at the end of the last century and the beginning of it.

Among these testimonies of locating Pablo Hernán Sierra, who commented that while serving as governor of Antioquia, Uribe issued in November 1996, a resolution that authorized the association “Living the Condor”, of San Roque, to take surveillance and defense actions.

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Living together was the name given to groups of self -defense groups and private security and security cooperatives in Colombia, that progressively mutated to merge with paramilitary structures.

“The basis of the coexistence, in San José del Nus, was next to the livestock bar, on a family property of the former president. There was the office of the coexistence”the witness pointed out.

For its part, Carlos Enrique Vélez, who was a member of the Metro Group of the United Self -Defense Fortranslated into about 45 thousand dollars to the current change, to deny the alleged links of the ex -president with the paramilitary forces.

This trial is the first of its kind against a former governor in Colombia. The hearings, as indicated by Judge 44 of knowledge of Bogotá, They will extend for the next five days. Likewise, sand will set the schedule of the proceedings for the presentation of the defense tests.