Hearing in Colombia ex-president case to resume only after appeals - judge
APRIL 9, 20216:10 PMUPDATED A DAY AGO
By Reuters Staff
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Hearings on whether to close a witness tampering investigation into former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe will remain suspended pending the decision of a tribunal that will consider adding additional victims to the case, a judge said on Friday.
Proceedings that could close the investigation, requested by the attorney general’s office after it found Uribe’s conduct did not constitute a crime, began earlier this week but were suspended so Judge Carmen Helena Ortiz could consider adding the victims.
Uribe - who has maintained his innocence - and several allies are being investigated over witness tampering allegedly carried out in an attempt to discredit accusations he had ties to right-wing paramilitary groups.
Ortiz on Friday said one alleged victim of the witness tampering - the former partner of an ex-paramilitary - should be included in the case, but rejected the inclusion of another potential victim.
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