The former president Álvaro Uribe He completed 20 hours of statements in the courts of Paloquemao of Bogotá and still does not finish giving his version.
This Thursday the audience started at 8:00 in the morning. The former president arrived punctual and greeted himself to the prosecutor who accuses him.
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During the day on Wednesday, the 72 -year -old ex -president defended an episode that is key to this trial that advances against him for the crimes of bribery to witnesses and procedural fraud.
This is a trip that in 2009 made a group of congressmen – among them Piedad Córdoba (already deceased), Iván Cepeda and Rodrigo Lara – to the United States to interview Juan Carlos “El Tuso” Sierra. The former president said how he learned of the apparent offers they made to the exparamilitar to declare against his.
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This Thursday the audience continues and the ex -president tells how he learned of other offers they made in the prisons of Colombia to other exparamilitaries such as Enrique Vélez.
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The Charter of the Exparamitar Vélez is written by Diego Cadena and signed by the witness who, by then, was held in the La Picota de Bogotá prison. The defense released an audio in which Uribe asks if there is no inconvenience in which Chain has written the letter.
“No Mr. President, the Lord told me that he had a very ugly letter and asked me to take his statement. That is like writing on computer and then the witness sign, there is no inconvenience,” said Cadena.
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The former president’s defense released a letter that Carlos Enrique Vélez, aka Víctor, had sent to the Prosecutor’s Office in 2017. In it it is read that the exparamilitary manifests the accusing entity that he is willing to deliver information in the case of Santiago Uribe Vélez, brother of the former president.
Enrique Vélez’s version in this case was key. The exparamilitar said that lawyer Diego Cadena visited him in prison and offered up to 200 million pesos in exchange for testifying against Senator Iván Cepeda and, with it, favoring Uribe Vélez.
The letter signed by Vélez has a letterhead that says “Chain & Associates Low Office”, the firm of lawyer Diego Cadena. For Uribe, this reason is enough to prove that the work of that defender did not make “in the shade.”
