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Former president Juan Manuel Santos came out in defense of the prosecutor Francisco Barbosa and said that in no way can he be disqualified for any case due to the fact of having had contracts with his government.
“That has no disability,” said the Nobel Prize winner, and demanded that his work be respected now that he has taken over the process of former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, currently in preventive detention as the alleged determiner of the crimes of bribery of witnesses in criminal proceedings and procedural fraud.
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Along the same lines, Santos said that a storm had arisen in a glass of water when he questioned the independence of the magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice César Augusto Reyes, Uribe investigator, for having also had a contract for about 600 million euros. pesos with your government.
“I do not know the magistrate, I have never seen him. I have not exchanged a word with him. There, too, a storm broke out in a glass of water. What if everyone who had a contract in the past government was barred from acting in this government? It wouldn’t make any sense “Santos argued on Blu Radio.
Santos, likewise, stated that this discussion must be overcome and called for “disarming the warlike spirits.”
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“I do not see anything wrong with that, the magistrate simply executed a contract and also executed it very well,” Santos explained.
The former president stated that he had no information on that contract and that he only found out about it last Thursday, after the case came to light.
“The process was that the Peace Commissioner, Sergio Jaramillo, with Fondo Paz, with several of the international organizations, looked for a way to profile the members of the Farc who were in jails so that they could be subject to amnesties for any legal action. within the Special Justice for Peace. A kind of census, “he said.
I do not know the magistrate, I have never seen him. I have not exchanged a word with him. There also a storm was armed in a glass of water
For this purpose, according to the former president, a contest was held, three signatures were submitted, and the magistrate’s signature won the contest.
“They tell me that they executed it perfectly, they did a very expensive job because they had to go through all the prisons in Colombia. He was not a magistrate at that time and that was the relationship he had with the government: a contractor, “he said.
(We suggest: Should the prosecutor declare himself impeded by contracts with the Santos government?)
Santos said that people who had contracts with his government could not be prevented from being prevented from working in this government. “That doesn’t make any sense.”
Santos cited the case of the current Interior Minister, Alicia Arango, who, he recalled, was for three years of his government as Colombia’s ambassador.
And he added that during his tenure he worked with many officials from the previous government without any problem.
That is why he demanded to let the prosecutor Barbosa work. This week, the Investigation Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice decided to transfer the file containing the investigation against Uribe to the Attorney General’s Office.
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