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Following the decision of the Tribunal of Medellín to grant Antioquia Governor Aníbal Gaviria Correa released, the Prosecutor’s Office will continue to investigate the president for two crimes.
The process for contract crimes without complying with legal requirements and embezzlement in favor of third parties, he is still in the office of the delegate prosecutor before the Supreme Court Jorge Hernán Díaz.
The judicial officer will have to continue investigating and practicing evidence, including those requested by Gaviria Correa’s defense, and then he will have to decide whether there are sufficient elements to take him to trial or whether to close the investigation.
(Read: They order the release of the suspended governor Aníbal Gaviria).
Sources of the prosecuting body indicated that since the decision to secure Gaviria Correa in house arrest on June 5, investigations have been carried out and the process has advanced.
For example, it transpired that an accounting expertise was carried out on the contractor company, to which the contract in question was awarded, which “implied not only a review of the companies’ accounts but also a bank review, to determine the origin and destination of resources of the contract, where the misuse of the advance given in the contract is demonstrated “.
For the Prosecutor’s Office, this is a supervening test that will be key when evaluating the process.
In addition, an inspection was carried out on the bridge that was hired. They traveled to Antioquia and inspections were carried out with drones, a topographic survey, where, in the opinion of the investigators, it is shown that the bridge object of the contract was not included in a road mobilization network plan, but was a isolated work.
In the same way, a series of tests and testimony requested by the governor’s defense were carried out.
Official sources indicated that the investigation stage has already been closed and that the defense of Gaviria Correa filed an appeal on this closure, so before continuing, the defense’s request must be resolved.
The criminal lawyer Pedro Nel Escorcia pointed out that the Prosecutor’s Office will not be able to reassure the governor and that if they decide to call him to trial he would have to face it in freedom.
He indicated that there will be no reason for the judge to correct the error of the Prosecutor’s Office, by not presenting the decision to call him to trial or close the investigation in time.
The criminal prosecutor argued that from the beginning his arrest should not have been ordered in the face of a process with facts registered 15 years ago about “someone who was not going to withdraw or obstruct the action of justice.
The criminal lawyer Carlos Gilberto Gómez Cifuentes pointed out “for having allowed the term to qualify expire, the Prosecutor’s Office cannot affect Doctor Gaviria again with an assurance measure.”
(Also read: Aníbal Gaviria regained his position as Governor of Antioquia).
And he added: “I could only have kept him imprisoned, if he had qualified in the legal term.”
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