Process against former senator Álvaro Uribe in the Attorney General’s Office will be led by Gabriel Jaimes

The process against former senator Álvaro Uribe Vélez, for the alleged crimes of bribery of witnesses and procedural fraud, was transferred to the Attorney General’s Office this Thursday. The investigating body confirmed the direct transfer “by instruction of the Investigation Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice.”

The text also indicates that “due to the complexity of the matter, its high national impact and in order to guarantee the due
process of all parties and intervening parties, the process was assigned to dr. Gabriel
Ramón Jaimes Durán “.

The official is a “career prosecutor and currently holds the position of Prosecutor
coordinator of the Delegate Prosecutor’s Office before the Supreme Court of Justice, who has the experience and institutional recognition in the advancement of cases of great connotation and who from today will assume the knowledge of the investigation with independence and autonomy “.

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Jaimes joined the Attorney General’s Office in 1994 and since then has forged part of his career.

In 1999 he arrived in Bucaramanga and, in 2007, he went to the Santa Rosa de Viterbo Office of the Prosecutor’s Office, in Boyacá. Later, she said, she worked on “notorious cases in Colombia” from the Anticorruption Unit.

In April 2008, he began working with the Council of State as an assistant magistrate in the office of the then magistrate Alejandro Ordóñez, who later became the attorney general and is now the country’s ambassador to the OAS.