Prosecution wants Uribe investigated over possible homicide of former chief of staff
Prosecution wants Uribe investigated over possible homicide of former chief of staff
Posted by Adriaan Alsema on Jan 26, 2016
Colombia’s public prosecution asked the country’s Supreme Court to investigate former President Alvaro Uribe for the violent death of his former chief of staff in 2006.
Pedro Juan Moreno was one of Uribe’s closest aides until he died in a helicopter crash in the northwest of the country on February 24, 2006, days before congressional elections were held and months before Uribe was reelected president.
The crash was initially filed as an accident, but testimonies by several former leaders of now-defunct paramilitary organization AUC and conflicting official reports indicated that the helicopter crashed on purpose, converting Moreno’s death into a possible homicide.
According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, there is enough evidence that merit a criminal investigation in the alleged involvement of Uribe in the death of his former staff who has been accused of being the liaison between the politician and right-wing paramilitaries on numerous occasions.
More:
http://colombiareports.com/uribe-investigated-over-possible-homicide-of-former-chief-of-staff/
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141326374