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The former Attorney General, Eduardo Montealegre and former Vice Attorney Jorge Fernando Perdomo, caused a stir at the hearing requesting the release of the former senator Álvaro Uribe Vélez when requesting the suspension of the diligence considering that the prosecutor Gabriel Jaimes intended to seek the nullity of everything acted by the Supreme Court of Justice in the process for alleged manipulation and pressure on witnesses.
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They also stated that the representative of the investigating body did not transfer all the documents, including the inquest that Uribe rendered on October 8, 2019, before the high court.
“I am outraged as a victim by the request for annulment of Mr. Jaimes (prosecutor in the case) who asks the judge to declare the nullity of the investigation because it violated due process, it is the basis to argue its request for annulment; the prosecutor provides as evidence the text of the investigation by Álvaro Uribe Vélez, with which it intends to request the nullity of the proceedings, which was not transferred to me, ”argued Montealegre.
In the same vein, former Deputy Prosecutor Jorge Perdomo questioned that the hearing that was to attend the request for release had been transformed into a request for annulment.
For her part, the representative of the Attorney General It indicated that it did not hear that the Prosecutor had requested the annulment of the actions of the Supreme Court of Justice.
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In the same sense, the guarantee control judge considered that Montealegre and Perdomo’s request was intended to delay the hearing.
“In the intervention of the prosecutor (Jaimes) according to the criteria of this judicial official, has never filed any request for annulment of these procedural acts, Also in his speech it was made clear that it was assumed that those acts were valid and that they had exactly taken effect, in fact he brought up multiple pronouncements and jurisprudence, ”said the Judge.
The judge continued stating that “I believe that the application presented by Eduardo Montealegre and Jorge Perdomo constitutes a misrepresentation of the scope of the arguments presented by the ProsecutorTherefore, this judicial official agrees that it is not necessary to suspend this hearing, taking into account that there is a precisely established object against which there is no doubt about its purpose, purpose and justification, what is the restoration of the fundamental right to freedom affected at the head of Álvaro Uribe Vélez ”.
