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Diego Cadena had appealed the decision that a judge made against him, after the Prosecutor’s Office accused him of bribery and procedural fraud, for alleged steps he had taken to convince former paramilitary prisoners not to involve former President Álvaro Uribe with the defunct Self-Defense Forces.
However, Blu Raso reported that this Thursday another togado denied freedom and ratified the house as jail for the lawyer, who says he gave money to a former member of a paramilitary group as humanitarian aid.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, on July 18, 2017, Cadena arrived at the Palmira prison and offered 200 million pesos to former paramilitary Carlos Enrique Vélez, to declare that it was Senator Iván Cepeda who sought him out to link Uribe in the investigations into paramilitarism carried out by magistrate José Luis Barceló.
The accusing body says that the lawyer managed to deliver 48 million pesos; however, he has pleaded not guilty to everything he is accused of.
Cadena has been a prisoner at his home since July, when his hearing was held. The judge considered that releasing him could be a risk for the investigation process and therefore imposed the preventive measure.
At the same time, former President Uribe managed to get a Bogotá judge to return his freedom, arguing that he was not charged with ordinary justice, where his case passed after he resigned from the Senate of the Republic.
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