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The former president and former senator of the Álvaro Uribe Vélez Democratic Center published this Sunday on his Twitter account a new defense of what he calls his “honorability”, in relation to the process by which he has a home insurance measure at his El Ubérrimo farm, in Cordova.
Uribe is being investigated for crimes of bribery of witnesses and procedural fraud, in an investigation that was in the Investigation Room of the Supreme Court of Justice and that passed to the Prosecutor’s Office as a result of the former senator’s resignation from Congress.
This Wednesday, at 9:00 am, The hearing in which a circuit judge will decide Uribe’s defense request is cited to release him to face what comes in the judicial process.
(Also read: On Wednesday it is decided whether Álvaro Uribe is free or remains in detention)
In his statement, read on video, Uribe referred to various points aired in the process before the Supreme Court. Thus he affirms that, contrary to what the Supreme Court order says about pressuring Juan Guillermo Monsalve Through alias Caliche and the representative Álvaro Hernán Prada, he does not know ‘Caliche’.
“I don’t know ‘Caliche’. In Neiva they tried to contact several friends of mine. Álvaro Hernán Prada called me and told me that they had approached him because the witness against my brother and myself wanted to rectify their lies. My only answer was: let him say the truth, “says the former senator.
Regarding the claim that Uribe would have pressured Monsalve with the help of lawyer Diego Cadena – who is also under investigation – Uribe said that he knew from friends of his that Monsalve “was sorry” for the accusations against him and his brother Santiago, and that is why Cadena went to jail to talk to him. However, he said that he never sent for offers.
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Regarding the fact that he would have pressured Monsalve through Juan Guillermo Villegas, he only said that “the interceptions show the opposite of what is stated in this conjecture.”
And regarding the payment of alleged bribes to Carlos Enrique Vélez, he recalled that Cadena recognized payments of 8 million to him “for humanitarian reasons and per diem and telephones”, but that the lawyer never consulted him and that he would not have authorized.
Finally, Uribe said that “there are witnesses, fellow prisoners of Monsalve, who have testified that they heard him complain about the character who bribed him, who protected him, who prevented him from being transferred to prison. They also affirm that Monsalve lived with regret for having falsely accused him. my brother and me “.
This statement by Uribe has no new information or that the former senator would not have said before, but it does a few hours after a court in the capital decides whether the process against him continues with him at liberty or under house arrest.
ELTIEMPO.COM