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The Prosecutor’s Office will ratify, at an accusation hearing, its hypothesis that the lawyer Diego Cadena committed the crimes of bribery and procedural fraud.
The process is also advancing against the lawyer Juan José Salazar Cruz.
While Cadena is being held at home in jail, Salazar Cruz was not the object of any security measure. They are prosecuted for the attempted bribery of witnesses in the case in which former President Álvaro Uribe is also being investigated.
Accusation hearing against Diego Cadena.
Taken from virtual audience.
It may interest you (Uribe case will follow the accusatory system and the judge will define his freedom).
The Prosecutor’s Office made an addition to the indictment that it had initially filed.
During the hearing, the prosecutor in the case pointed out that the irregularities that Cadena and Salazar Cruz had incurred, sought to benefit a constitutional official and affect Senator Iván Cepeda, who presented himself as a victim.
The third Criminal Circuit Judge with the Function of Knowledge of Bogotá endorsed the petition of Senator Cepeda’s lawyer and none of the parties opposed the decision so the decision was final.
The Prosecutor’s Office pointed out that the witness Carlos Enrique Vélez was not only offered money to change his testimony but also legal aid.
That was one of the changes that the Prosecutor’s Office made to the accusation against the lawyers Diego Cadena and Juan José Salazar Cruz, prosecuted for bribery and procedural fraud.
In the indictment, they had only been told of offering money for about 200 million pesos and on account of the investigation and telephone interceptions, the Prosecutor’s Office indicates that they also offered advice in processes that were advancing against the former paramilitary. That fact was attributed only to Cadena and not his partner Salazar Cruz.
During the indictment, it had only been pointed out that Juan Guillermo Monsalve had been offered money and advice in the review of his case and the possibility of having his proceedings go to the Special Justice for Peace (JEP).
Likewise, the mention of investigations against the person per case such as the creation of the Metro Block of the Self-Defense Forces and the Riosucio massacre was withdrawn from the indictment.
“They knew that they were making payments to witnesses to act against the law,” said the prosecutor in the case.
The prosecutor in the case also varied the category of the crime from determining factors and remaining as co-perpetrators of the facts.
The attorneys for the defendants disagreed with some of the changes made by the Prosecutor’s Office and the judge upheld the integrity of the accusation.
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