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New complaints and possible challenges announced this Friday the senator for the Polo Iván Cepeda in the middle of the process that is being followed by former president Álvaro Uribe.
Cepeda is a civil party in the investigation on Uribe for his alleged participation in the manipulation of witnesses and which passed from the Supreme Court of Justice to the Attorney General’s Office.
According to Cepeda, the Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa, “violated the law” by having designated the prosecutor Gabriel Jaimes as the person responsible for the process against Uribe. Barbosa was challenged by Cepeda and the appeal would be in the hands of the Supreme Court of Justice.
“We are going to criminally denounce the prosecutor Barbosa before the Chamber’s Indictment Commission for having circumvented the request for disqualification from the civil party, of which he was duly notified,” Cepeda said.
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And he added that if Jaimes’s appointment remains firm, he will also be challenged.
The other recourse that Cepeda announced was against some Uribe congressmen who would have demonstrated in favor of former President Uribe.
“We are going to ask the Attorney General of the Nation to investigate 16 congressmen from Centro Democrático for abuse of functions,” the congressman announced.
We are going to criminally denounce the prosecutor Barbosa before the Commission of Accusation of the Chamber for having circumvented the request for recusal of the civil party
Cepeda affirmed that there is a “campaign of pressure, manipulation and threats that ex-senator Uribe, his family and the government itself have developed.”
He added that the former president, according to him, “what he has done is to incite public opinion” to “commit a kind of riot” against the Supreme Court of Justice.
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