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Colombia's former president indicted for fraud and bribery again
by Adriaan Alsema November 7, 2020
A court indicted Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe on Friday after the prosecution failed to confirm the far-right politician’s fraud and bribery charges.
The Supreme Court had already filed criminal charges and placed Uribe under house arrest, but agreed to transfer his case to a lower court after the far-right politician resigned from the Senate.
Uribe’s renunciation of his congressional privileges allowed a Bogota court to lift the house arrest and allow the prosecution to decide whether or not to indict the former president.
An appeals court, however, agreed it was up to the prosecution to decide whether to detain Uribe, but that the Supreme Court’s initial indictment was still in place.
The ruling forces controversial prosecutor Gabriel Jaimes to proceed with the criminal investigation and disallows him to discard evidence of fraud and bribery gathered by the Supreme Court.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-former-president-indicted-for-fraud-and-bribery-again/
