Uribe threatens to sue judge who ordered ‘parapolitics’ investigation
Uribe threatens to sue judge who ordered ‘parapolitics’ investigation
posted by Adriaan Alsema
Sep 9, 2013
Colombia’s former President, Alvaro Uribe, threatened on Sunday to sue the judge who ordered a criminal investigation of the politician’s alleged ties to paramilitary organization AUC.
According to Uribe’s defense attorney, Jaime Granados, his client asked him to thoroughly study the ruling in which Medellin judge Ruben Dario Pinilla ordered national judicial bodies to investigate the polemic former president.
Granados told press that the judge might have broken the law and illegally damaged the good name of Uribe when stating that evidence suggested that the political support for the AUC, to whom tens of thousands of human rights violations are attributed, “became an established policy” under Uribe that was “sponsored, permitted and facilitated by the high command of the Armed Forces.”
The former president and his allies are under increasing legal pressure over a wide range of alleged crimes; One of the primary candidates of Uribe’s Democratic Center party was recently imprisoned for his alleged ties to the AUC, while two others are still under investigation.
Uribe, who held the presidency between 2002 and 2010, is also investigated for the illegal wiretapping of political opponents, the Supreme Court, human rights organizations and journalists.
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http://colombiareports.co/uribe-threatens-sue-judge-ordered-parapolitics-investigation/
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