Inpec authorizes 72-hour permit to Andrés Felipe Arias

This Wednesday, November 11, Inpec granted Andrés Felipe Arias’ request of an exit permit for 72 hours.

This request was filed by Arias on November 6 in the judicial registry of the Court in charge of monitoring the fulfillment of his 17-year sentence, due to the chaos of Agro Ingreso Seguro.

This benefit is granted to those who are sentenced in the country and meet certain requirements such as good behavior, that they have served a third of the sentence and that their departure does not represent a risk of flight. In his case, between the time he was detained in Colombia and the United States, he has already served more than five and a half years in detention, with which he would already be legally entitled to these types of benefits. Arias was sentenced to 17 years and four months in prison.

According to the information shown to the media by the Judicial Branch, on November 6, before the second court for the execution of sentences, Arias’s lawyers requested the request for permission.

This is not the first request made by Arias’s defense to seek some benefit. Some time ago he tried to get justice to validate the sentence he spent in the United States to request benefits such as house for jail or parole. Both were denied.

It should be remembered that Andrés Felipe Arias was sentenced by the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice to 17 years in prison and to the payment of an economic penalty of $ 30,000 million for his responsibility in the Agro Ingreso Seguro (AIS) scandal. In the investigation, Arias was found responsible for the crimes of entering into contracts without complying with the legal requirements and embezzlement due to appropriation in favor of third parties.

On the other hand, on Wednesday, October 21, it was known that the defense of Andrés Felipe Arias He submitted a 450-page document that he hopes will help overturn the ruling that sentenced him to jail time.

With this document, which is addressed to magistrate Gerson Chaverra Castro, a member of the Decision Chamber of the Supreme Court, Arias supports his defense by attacking the magistrates who convicted him a few years ago. The first thing that the document, collected by El Tiempo, says is that the trial against Arias would have been irregular, since an appeal for reconsideration was not resolved, which would violate due process.

The document makes harsh remarks against the Supreme Court of Justice, as it points out that, although errors were corrected, the sentence “suffers from a large number of factual errors in the evidentiary assessment.” According to the defenders of the former conservative presidential candidate, the errors are related to the omission of evidence and even accuse the high court of having curtailed and distorted others. Arias’s defense highlights the partial vote rescue that occurred in his case.

At the moment, the former minister is still detained in the military installations pending a ruling from the Supreme Court of Justice, while the Prosecutor’s Office and the Attorney General’s Office have already requested that his sentence be finalized.

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