Can Colombia's prosecution try Uribe if it can't even solve 95% of crimes?
by Adriaan Alsema September 2, 2020
Colombia’s Supreme Court put the notoriously dysfunctional prosecution in a major fix by putting it in charge of former President Alvaro Uribe‘s fraud and bribery case.
Its name may indicate the opposite, but prosecuting alleged criminals is not what Colombia’s prosecution does or 95% of the country’s crimes would’t be left unsolved.
If Prosecutor General Francisco Barbosa screws up the trial of the century like his office has screwed up the vast majority of criminal investigations, the consequences are impossible to calculate.
The prosecution: a safe bet?
After the former president renounced his congressional privilege, the court agreed to put the prosecution in charge of the witness tampering case.
This dramatically increased the former president’s changes to stay out of prison as the chief prosecutor is one of President Ivan Duque‘s best friends and both effectively owe their jobs to Uribe.
Furthermore, prosecutors have been disappearing criminal investigations for decades and prosecutor Daniel Hernandez, who is prosecuting Uribe’s former fixer Diego Cadena, has already said the former president is a “victim.”
More:
https://colombiareports.com/can-colombias-prosecution-try-uribe-if-it-cant-even-solve-95-of-crimes/
