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An old contract, signed by the Santos government in the middle of peace negotiations with the former FARC, is concentrating the attention of the Democratic Center, in the face of the defense of former president Álvaro Uribe, within the process that the Court was following him for bribery and procedural fraud , now in the Prosecutor’s Office.
The contract was signed with Nueva Justicia y Litgación Oral Consultores Ltda., A firm of which Judge César Augusto Reyes was a partner, who was in charge of Uribe’s investigation.
For Uribe, this would constitute an impediment, since former President Santos is an alleged public enemy of Uribe, which members of the opposition reject, recalling that the current Prosecutor also had contracts with the Uribe government.
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The then peace commissioner articulated the hiring from Havana.
Mauricio Dueñas / EFE
EL TIEMPO had exclusive access to emails and documents that show how Reyes’ signature came to be hired by the Fund for Special Programs for Peace, to conduct a field investigation to establish the legal status and health status of people with measure of seizure or convictions that appeared in the lists of prisoners of the Farc-EP, in the framework of conversations that took place in Havana.
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According to the documents, the coordinator of the process was the then peace commissioner, Sergio Jaramillo, who sent the instructions from Havana.
Sergio Jaramillo, then Commissioner for Peace, ordered the signing of César Reyes.
According to the documents that EL TIEMPO reveals, the staff of the Peace Commissioner’s office was overwhelmed and required to go to the jails to verify the situation of each one of the members of the Farc that were going to be part of the peace process.
The idea, according to documents in the Casa de Nariño, was “to verify the will for peace and reintegration into civil life of the rebels.”
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And for this, three quotes were requested from three firms. Although it is not explained why the selected ones were invited, it is known that, in addition to Reyes, Lequity SAS and Arrieta Mantilla y Asociados, signature of former attorney Carlos Gustavo Arrieta, were invited.
These were the companies that competed with Reyes’ to keep the contract.
What did the firm do?
This is the quote passed by the firm to which the magistrate Reyes was linked today.
In addition to his experience in other countries, what weighed in hiring Reyes’ company, according to the documents, was the price: it was the cheapest compared to its competitors.
From that moment on, he began visiting prisons and reviewing the legal situation of dozens of people, sending forms that EL TIEMPO keeps under reserve because they are protected by habeas data.
One of the emails that were crossed to request the quotes.
The amount of the contract was 570 million pesos and, according to documents held by EL TIEMPO, Reyes transferred the quotas he had in that company on October 5, 2018, three days before taking office as a magistrate of the Investigation Chamber.
The same did his partner, Fernando Jimémez Montes, who is now an assistant magistrate in his office.
“I don’t know what to think about the direct contract between Magistrate Reyes and Santos, let alone what to write!” Uribe said.
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EL TIEMPO also obtained the document through which Commissioner Jaramillo requested that the contract be extended, on time, for reasons of force majeure.
Indeed, on November 9, 2016, Jaramillo sent a new email to the Fund for Special Programs for Peace, at the time in the hands of María inés Restrepo.
“(…) for reasons of force majeure, materialized and insurmountable difficulties related to the process of obtaining or collecting information from the characterization files of Farc-EP inmates in courts and prisons in the country. In many cases, professionals have found important shortcomings in the registration and updating of the information pertaining to the activities of investigation, trial and execution of sentences, especially in the courts of sentences and measures and security measures, a situation that has generated delays in the execution and access to the files ( …) “, warned Jaramillo.
This is how Sergio Jaramillo justified the extension, in time, of the contract of the company where Reyes was listed.
EL TIEMPO had access to the partial progress minutes of the contract that the signature passed, as well as the visit sheets to the country’s prisons, including El Pedregal (in Medellín and those of Pasto, Jamundí, Cúcuta, Girón, Cómbita, Acacías , La Dorada, Florencia, Heliconias and Bogotá).
On August 25, 2017, the contract liquidation certificate was signed in which the supervisor, Mauro Rodrugo Palta, signed after noting that the object of the contract had been fulfilled and it was declared to be mutually safe and sound with the contractor.
Reyes signed the minutes.
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In addition to the contract, members of the Uribe caucus sent a right to petition to Magistrate Reyes, asking 18 questions that he refused to answer, arguing that: “The congressmen who formulate the right to petition do not hold any of the qualities required by the legislator to supply them with the reserved information they demand (…) They are not procedural subjects or intervening parties, nor media representatives, nor do any of the circumstances provided for in the provisions concur, reasons for which it is not possible to access the petition filed “.
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They insistently ask him if he has ties with the wife of Senator Iván Cepeda, an issue that the Polo congressman has emphatically denied.
They also asked him to reveal all his calls in the last 5 years. The same request was made to Cepeda, who refused to deliver them.
The Uribista congressmen, led by Ernesto Macías, also asked him for a list of all his clients (when he litigated) and revealed that his family members have ties with the FARC party or with NGOs.
“It should be noted that what is noted is the claim to exercise a disciplinary or jurisdictional control, manifestly inadmissible and much more one of a political nature within the processes that are well known to be carried out in the Chamber,” was added in the response, signed by the secretary of the room, Adriana Hernández Aguilar
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