Upon learning of parts of the decision issued by the Supreme Court of Justice against Senator Álvaro Uribe Vélez on the house arrest and the fragment In which it talks about the use of its Legislative Work Unit (UTL) for the alleged use of false witnesses, the lawyer Miguel Ángel del Río announced that he will file a lawsuit for loss of investiture against the former president.
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Lawyer Del Río indicated that he will sue Senator Uribe Vélez for the possible misuse of members of his Legislative Work Unit for tasks other than those established in Congress. “Public money put at the service of personal interests. Unacceptable“said the lawyer.
I will file a lawsuit for loss of investiture against Senator Uribe with my friend @marciomelgosa for the improper use of members of its UTL for tasks other than those consigned in the congress. Public money placed at the service of personal interests. Unacceptable.
– Miguel Angel Del Río Malo (@migueldelrioabg) August 8, 2020
According to the text of the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice obtained by RCN Radio in which it supports the reasons why the high court decreed the measure of house arrest, Senator Álvaro Uribe would have used members of his UTL to carry out procedures in the possible search for false witnesses in favor of the former president.
“In short, it is worth saying that from the behaviors exhibited previously and within the current diligence by Senator Álvaro Uribe, it is feasible and reasonable to infer the probability that it will persist in influencing the pending testimony. The above, either through your undercover delegates or your UTL members, those who have certainly been assigned a leading role in the management of the search and assurance of information and / or witnesses in their criminal proceedings, regardless of the institutional functions of those“, says the text of the Court.
The Court in its decision of 1,554 pages warns that both the former private secretary of the former president, Maria Claudia Daza, as Fabian Rojas Puerta, no longer do parts of the UTL of the investigated senator, the lawyer Hernán Cadavid continues to develop legislative work and is who appears as the means through which one of the letters of potential witnesses was contributed.
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At that point, the Court concludes that by integrating its legislative work team in the case referred to by the high court, “A greater spectrum of risk opens up in this illegal activity of searching for evidence, since what is actively appreciated is that they share information, carry out the preparation of writings, documents that are sent for review, among other activities “, indicates the text.
For his part, Jaime Granados, one of the senator’s lawyers, Álvaro Uribe issued a statement announcing that the Court’s decision in this case is being leaked, what is necessary to be published in its entirety indicates the lawyer.
“The UTL at the service of Álvaro Uribe, has not carried out criminal investigation tasks or evidence management“said attorney Jaime Granados, attorney for the former president to defend the case.
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