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That said El Tiempo, this Monday, and indicated that application of the former Minister of Agriculture of Álvaro Uribe is, since November 6, “In judicial records of the judge who is in charge of monitoring his sentence”, 17 years in prison for the subsidies of Agro Income Insurance, which ended up in the hands of borrowing families in the country.
Semana gave similar information and even said that the information was confirmed by the same lawyer by Andrés Felipe Arias, Jorge Aníbal Gómez, and sources close to the process.
“The former minister requested a temporary permit, of at least 72 hours, to be able to leave. Normally, this benefit is granted to study or work, and is granted for 72 hours per month. What Semana has been able to establish is that the request was made to the judicial branch to grant it that benefit, “said a journalist from the magazine in a video.
Requirements that Arias must meet to get out of jail to work
In the aforementioned recording, the medium also referred to what requirements the justice requires to grant permission to leave prison to work or study, and which can be read below:
- Good behavior of the condemned.
- That there is no risk of escape of the prisoner.
- That the detainee has served a third of the sentence imposed.
Regarding the latter, El Tiempo added that Arias “would already have the legal right to that type of benefits”, because “he was sentenced to 17 years and four months in prison and he has already fulfilled, between the time in detention in Colombia and the United States ”.
However, it is worth mentioning that a few days ago it was said that, in Colombia, the former minister would not be worth the time he was imprisoned in the United States.
It remains to be expected what the corresponding authorities will resolve, but the magazine asserted that this week they could give an answer to Andrés Felipe Arias, as can be heard in the following video:
Andres Felipe Arias hopes that his sentence will be overturned
Apart from that request, the justice is also reviewing the request of the former minister to overturn the judgment with which he was convicted, because, among other things, he believes that due process and the right to defense were violatedrecalled the magazine.
Regarding this challenge, the Prosecutor’s Office has asked that the sentence be upheld, while the Prosecutor’s Office indicated that his sentence should be reduced.
For his part, the Minister of Agriculture of the Duque Government asked to revoke the conviction against Arias and absolve him of all AIS crimes.
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