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After learning that the magistrate of the Chamber of Instruction César Agusto Reyes Medina had a contract with the government of Juan Manuel Santos in July 2016, Uribismo questioned the magistrate who until this Monday was the investigator in the process that the high court was following against Álvaro Uribe Vélez for alleged bribery of witnesses and procedural fraud.
Several members of the Democratic Center questioned the fact that Magistrate Reyes has not declared himself impeded. However, now the focus is on Attorney General Francisco Barbosa who, as this newspaper was able to show, also had contracts with the government of former President Santos.
It should be remembered that the case against former President Álvaro Uribe, who is currently under house arrest, passed from the Supreme Court of Justice to the Prosecutor’s Office. In other words, the prosecutor Barbosa could get some interference in this case.
(See also: Paloma Valencia’s five phrases about former President Uribe)
According to Barbosa’s resume, registered on the Public Function page, in 2013 and 2014, the now Attorney General had contracts with the Ministry of Transportation. That is, it was during the Santos administration, which was from 2012 to 2018.
(See here the resume of the Public Prosecutor Barbosa)
According to Barbosa himself in his biography, he indicates that he was an “external legal advisor” to the Ministry of Transport in 2013.
Francisco Barbosa resume
In the case of magistrate Reyes, congressmen from the Democratic Center criticized the fact that the togado has not declared himself impeded by the contract with the Santos government.
Uribista senators Paloma Valencia and María del Rosario Guerra also made reference to the contract in their networks. In fact, the second one emphasized in what it considers is the need for the investigating magistrate to declare her impediment by this contract: “César Reyes had to declare himself prevented from taking his case for having signed contracts with the Santos government.”
(You may also be interested in: ‘Uribe has had the practice of changing his position with justice’)
However, according to lawyers consulted by EL TIEMPO, in these cases no impediment applies.
“Having a contract with a previous government cannot be configured in any of the causes of impediment”, said Camilo Burbano, professor of criminal law at the Externado University, noting that it should be remembered that the grounds for removing an investigator or judge are established by law.
Like Burbano, the criminal lawyer Andrés Felipe Hernández considers that there was no legal argument to remove Judge Reyes.
(More about the case: Uribe invests almost 500 million pesos in the United States to defend himself)
Hernández recalled that in the judicial world it is very important that whoever judges provides full guarantees that their decisions will be in accordance with the Constitution and the law, and that they do not have “malicious inclinations to favor any of the intervening parties or procedural subjects.”
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