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In the next few minutes, the defense of former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez will present a formal request to the Prosecutor’s Office to release him immediately, after the Supreme Court lost jurisdiction over his case.
If the request is accepted, Uribe can be released in the next 36 hours.
(You may be interested: ‘Free Uribe’: the campaign in the US that Cepeda rejects)
Álvaro Uribe completes 29 days in home detention.
Juan Diego Buitrago. TIME Archive
This was confirmed to EL TIEMPO by criminal lawyer Jaime Granados, head of the former president’s defense team.
The legal thesis is that although the process in the Supreme Court progressed until the imputation and security measure (Law 600), it passes to the ordinary justice in Law 906.
From this legal point of view, Uribe has not been charged and no one who has not been charged can remain in detention.
(We invite you to read: This was the review of Álvaro Uribe, by Inpec, in El Ubérrimo)
Although this Tuesday afternoon the case had not yet materially reached the Prosecutor’s Office, Granados’ request may be the result once it is officially filed in the system.
And it will correspond to make the decision to the prosecutor who assumes the file.For Uribe’s defense, it is not necessary to review the thick file for the petition to be resolved before 36 hours.
Uribe completed 29 days in detention at his El Ubérrimo farm, in the department of Córdoba. Prosecutor’s Office would define his immediate freedom
This is the statement from the Court.
In addition, they draw attention to the fact that, at the time of the transfer of the file, the Investigation Chamber of the Supreme Court did not stipulate any annotation or warning on the issue of the domiciliary. In fact, she warned that she would notify Inpec of the decision.
He only stated that the behaviors under investigation are not related to Uribe’s role as congressman. In addition, that these are ordinary crimes.
Senator Iván Cepeda, victim within the process for alleged bribery of witnesses and procedural fraud, has not ruled on the request for freedom.
But he has already announced that he will challenge the attorney general, Francisco Barbosa, and his deputy prosecutor, to appoint an ad hoc prosecutor for the case.
(In addition. Cepeda says that Uribe hired an agency to discredit the Court)
In addition, that President Iván Duque could not make up the shortlist to elect the ad hoc for having ruled on the case, in favor of Uribe.
In the event that he presents a challenge, it will not go through to Granados’ request.
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