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A right to petition that the Democratic Center bench sent to Polo Senator Iván Cepeda, has just generated a hard friction.
In the document, held by EL TIEMPO, the Uribistas ask him to reveal the names of his advisers in Congress and make all his calls public, since 2015. This latest request, they say, is to establish or discard his supposed link with the magistrate César Reyes, in charge of the process against Álvaro Uribe for bribery in criminal proceedings and procedural fraud.
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The magistrate César Augusto Reyes.
“Would you be in a position to make public your telephone calls from the last 5 years, in order to establish the existence or non-existence of your personal or professional relationships with the honorable magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice CÉSAR AUGUSTO REYES MEDINA? (sic) ”, says the right of petition of the Uribistas.
(Read also: The questions of magistrate Lombana to her colleague César Reyes)
And Cepeda answers: “No. I reaffirm that I have no relationship whatsoever with Judge César Augusto Reyes Medina, except for the procedural that arises from the investigations in which I act before the Supreme Court of Justice, during the period in which he has integrated this High Court “.
I reserve the right to study if given the nature of your questions and the way they are formulated, you could be involved in an alleged illegal constraint
Chats deleted?
As EL TIEMPO revealed, last April, Judge Cristina Lombana ordered her colleague Reyes to reveal if he was a consultant for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and maintained any link work or personal with Cepeda’s wife.
The case was heard in court and Reyes said that there was neither a link nor a friendship with Cepeda or his wife. By ede, it was emphatic that there was no inability to continue leading the process against Uribe for alleged bribery in criminal proceedings and procedural fraud.
Another question on the right of petition of the Uribe bench refers to some chats that Cepeda and Juan Guillermo Monsalve, son of the butler of Guacharacas, one of the Uribe haciendas, met, star witness in the case against the former president.
(Also: Letter from Uribe’s defense requesting that the case leave the Court now)
“Please indicate the reason why you deleted the chats you had with Mr. Juan Guillermo Monsalve.”
Cepeda’s answer is blunt: “The information referred to was delivered in its entirety to the Supreme Court of Justice, there is the proof. All the information about my relationship with Mr. Juan Guillermo Monsalve is found in Instruction 38451 of the Supreme Court of Justice, in which on February 2018, he refrained from opening a criminal investigation against me. ”
This is Iván Cepeda’s response to uribism.
And it adds: “Likewise, in instruction 52601 that that High Court advances against former senator Álvaro Uribe Vélez and in Instruction No. 52240 in which the Supreme Court of Justice investigates former senator Uribe and the representative to the Chamber, Álvaro Hernán Prada, for the alleged crimes of bribery in criminal proceedings and procedural fraud. Similarly, it relies on the filing IUS-2013-87096, which contains the investigation that the Attorney General’s Office carried out against me, on the occasion of a complaint filed by the Former Senator Uribe, through his lawyer, Jaime Granados, in which it was ordered by a decision of July 30, 2018, clarified with an order of October 8 of the same year, to absolve me of disciplinary responsibility and which was confirmed by a decision of June annuity “.
Cristina Eugenia Lombana ordered César Reyes to explain his alleged connection with Iván Cepeda’s wife.
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At the end of the document, held by EL TIEMPO, Cepeda warns:
“I reserve the right to study if given the nature of your questions and the way they are formulated, you could be involved in an alleged illegal constraint and, therefore, to take the pertinent legal actions, if there is room for it. “
(See here all the articles of the Investigative Unit of EL TIEMPO)
1. On the testimony of Monsalve. In the Inhibitory Order of February 2018, the CSJ established that it is not true that I have offered any gift to Mr. Juan Guillermo Monsalve. When I met him, his testimony was already known to judicial operators.
– Iván Cepeda Castro (@IvanCepedaCast) August 28, 2020
In an interview with Daniel Coronell, Senator Cepeda stated that he had sent the chats held with the witness Monsalve to the Court. Also, when he was going to hand over the phone, it suffered partial memory damage from a blow. And he warned that, although he could not deliver the device, he says that the proof is.
For Uribe’s defense, these chats are key because they would show closeness between Senator Cepeda and the witness against Uribe.
In this regard, the senator from Polo has just assured in his networks that the Court ruled in his favor due to Uribe’s accusations that he had offered gifts to Monsalve.
Likewise, when he met him, his testimony was already in the hands of judicial operators.
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