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Among the best known names are General (r) Maza Márquez, former ministers Sabas Pretelt, Diego Palacio, former congressmen Pedro Muvdi and Manuel Carebilla, former governor Hernando Deluque, former mayor of Villavicencio Franklin “el Mono” Chaparro, Bernardo Moreno, María del Pilar Hurtado, Alberto Velásquez and Ferney Tapasco.
The ruling of the Constitutional Court in the Andrés Felipe Arias case generated, as planned, a wave of requests to the Supreme Court to review several convictions in a single instance. At the beginning of this year, the nine magistrates of the Constitutional Court granted the former Minister of Agriculture, Andrés Felipe Arias, the possibility of reviewing his sentence to 17 years in prison for irregularities in the Agro Ingreso Seguro program. The high court said that any person convicted in a single instance (the double instance for graduates was only created in 2018) since January 2014 has the same right to request that their sentences be reviewed.
Last week, for example, it was learned that the former prosecutor Rodrigo Aldana will be reviewed by the Supreme Court for his sentence to nine years in prison. El Espectador learned of a list of 84 cases of people who made the same request from the former official of the investigating body in which several names from Colombian politics and other sectors stand out. Among them appears the name of the retired General of the Police Miguel Maza Márquez, who since last September the Criminal Chamber reexamines the sentence to 30 years in prison imposed on him for his role in the assassination of the leader of the New Liberalism, Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento.
Another of the high-profile names are the former Ministers of the Interior and Health, Sabas Pretelt and Diego Palacio, convicted by the high court for having delivered gifts in 2004 to the then representatives to the Chamber Teodolindo Avendaño and Yidis Medina in exchange for their vote for change the Constitution and allow the reelection of Álvaro Uribe. Another of the cases, which had not been known so far, is that of former congressman Pedro Muvdi, convicted for his ties to paramilitarism. The high court, in 2017, sentenced him to 13 years in prison for being part of the Frente Mártires del Cacique del Valle de Upar, an illegal armed group integrated into the Northern Bloc, led by aliases George 40.
Former governors of La Guajira and Amazonas Hernando Deluque and Manuel Carebilla, respectively, also asked to review his sentence. The first, in 2016, was found guilty of the irregularities that occurred in the conclusion of contracts for the maintenance and rehabilitation works of the roads in La Guajira, as well as the failures in a two-phase construction contract of a departmental school . The second, imprisoned in La Picota de Bogotá, for corruption when he was a representative to the Chamber between 2006 and 2014. He will have to pay a sentence of 14 years and 7 months in prison. In addition, he is being investigated for another alleged act of corruption while he was regional president.
In that same prison there is another of the applicants for review of the sentence. It is about the former mayor of Villavicencio el Franklin monkey Chaparro to 39 years in prison as the determiner of the murder of the former mayor of the capital of Meta Omar López Robayo in February 2002. Twelve years later, the high court sentenced him to 39 years in prison. Another politician behind bars for a homicide and who is part of this list is Ferney Tapasco, former president of the Caldas Assembly. The liberal leader is sentenced to 36 years in prison for being the mastermind of the murder of Orlando Sierra, former deputy editor of the daily La Patria.
Another of the petitioners is the former secretary of the presidency during the Álvaro Uribe government, Bernardo Moreno, for his participation in the DAS illegal jacking scandal and for which he will have to pay nine years in prison. Alberto Velásquez, another of Uribe’s convicted presidential secretaries, also asked to review his sentence. This, like Pretelt and Palacio, to five years in prison for Yidispolitics. This determination was made by the Criminal Chamber of the high court in 2015.
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