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The former Minister of Agriculture, sentenced to 17 years in prison, visited his family during the leave granted by a judge. The event was recorded on video.
In a white shirt, cap and a black backpack on his shoulder, the former Minister of Agriculture Andrés Felipe Arias arrived at his house in Bogotá, to whom a city court granted a 72-hour permit to leave the detention center located in the North Canton. where he pays a 14-year prison sentence imposed in 2014 by the Supreme Court of Justice for irregularities in the Agro Ingreso Seguro program.
(Also read: Why in Colombia the time that Arias was on bail in the US will not be valued)
The temporary departure of the former minister was recorded by his relatives and published on Twitter by the user @LuzMariaBe. According to the woman in the publication, the event was recorded on Holy Thursday. The video shows the moment when Arias greets his minor children and their parents.
Yesterday amid much joy I uploaded and then I deleted this video for taking care of AFA, other people did not want to delete it. Today talking to @ghitis He suggests that I upload it again because it is already public. I cried with emotion at this meeting and we know that the good times will return. ❤️🌠 pic.twitter.com/OI2pZ7yP2I
– Luz Maria (@LuzMariaBe) April 2, 2021
Andrés Felipe Arias Leyva is being held in this military garrison after being secretly extradited from the United States last year. The former official is waiting for a Decision Chamber within the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice to resolve the challenge that he presented against the sentence that was imposed in 2014 for contract crimes without compliance with legal requirements and embezzled by appropriation.
(You may be interested in: The scope of the sentence in favor of Andrés Felipe Arias)
The sentence was handed down for having processed and concluded, as head of the Ministry of Agriculture, the technical and scientific cooperation agreements 003 of 2007, 055 of 2008 and 052 of 2009 with the office in Colombia of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA ), in the Agro Ingreso Seguro program. The Supreme Court determined that those contracts, in which there were irregularities, allowed individuals to appropriate money from the State.
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