A courtroom in Colombia sentenced conservative former President of Colombia Álvaro Uribe Vélez over the weekend to 12 years of home arrest on prices of abuse of process and bribery of a public official.
Moreover, Uribe was banned from holding public workplace for 100 months and 20 days. He should additionally pay the Colombian state a tremendous equal to 2,420 minimal wages, which interprets to over 3.4 billion Colombian pesos (roughly $840,000).
Colombian Choose Sandra Heredia learn the sentence on Friday, days after the choose discovered Uribe responsible of two out of three prices that the previous president stood accused of all through a extremely convoluted and prolonged trial course of that Colombian politicians and several other senior U.S. authorities members denounced as a sham.
Choose Heredia reportedly asserted all through the listening to that the home arrest sentence was “vital” and issued the corresponding orders for Uribe to serve home arrest at his residence within the municipality of Rionegro, Antioquia.
The trial that led to final week’s sentencing towards him started in 2012, when Uribe sued leftist Senator Iván Cepeda for allegedly searching for to bribe people to testify towards him. Six years later, in 2018, Colombian courts dismissed Uribe’s criticism towards Cepeda and as an alternative ordered an investigation towards Uribe for a similar allegations that led to the controversial responsible conviction.
“This all has its origin in that one of many lawmakers closest to [current far-left President Gustavo] Petro, son of a revolutionary — certainly, he studied within the Soviet Union with a communist formation, who’s Iván Cepeda,” Colombian Senator Paloma Valencia defined to Breitbart Information final week. “He was visiting prisons — and this was completely confirmed — on the lookout for testimonies towards President Uribe tying him to paramilitaries and providing judicial advantages in change for these testimonies that carried humanitarian advantages.”
Uribe appealed the conviction on Friday in a web based convention with the courtroom, fiercely defending his honor, good identify, and innocence. The previous president denounced the ruling towards him as politically biased and known as upon each nationwide and worldwide courts to evaluate the sentence.
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