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Prosecutor Francisco Barbosa and Deputy Prosecutor Martha Mancera asked the Supreme Court to reject the challenge filed by Senator Iván Cepeda against the two officials to hear the case of former President Álvaro Uribe.
Barbosa and Mancera argue, initially, that the challenge should have been presented first before their offices and not before the high court.
“There is no link between the challenged officials and the person of the accused, with the sufficient dimension to affect their impartiality,” reads also in the official letter sent from the accusing entity.
For the prosecutors, the arguments of the Senator of the Democratic Pole are “conjectures” that have no “legal basis”, rather than assuming that “they will suffer undue external pressure.”
Faced with the accusations for the friendship between Barbosa and President Iván Duque, whose political mentor is Uribe, they assert that the current president “is not the defendant.”
And they add that the challenge against Mancera has no reason to be because there is no pressure from Barbosa on her or on the delegated prosecutors.
Regarding the challenge against prosecutor Daniel Hernández, who is taking the case against Diego Cadena, Uribe’s lawyer, and who would have ruled on the process, they argue that it lacks a logical foundation.
And they say that the request for the appointment of an ad hoc prosecutor is not provided for in the Constitution for these cases.
Cepeda, considered a victim in the case, challenged the prosecutor last Wednesday and asked that an ad hoc prosecutor be appointed for the investigation.
“We hope that the Court will appoint an ad hoc prosecutor who comes not from a shortlist of the president or the vice president, because we believe that they are also impeded. That it be the Court itself that designates this official ”, he requested.
The appeal filed by Cepeda is presented after the high court had decided to transfer the case of the former president to the Prosecutor’s Office.
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