Uribe refuses to corroborate Santos drug money allegations under oath
Uribe refuses to corroborate Santos drug money allegations under oath
May 12, 2014 posted by Daniel E Freeman
According to local media, Uribe failed to answer a summons issued by the Prosecutor General’s Office to appear at 8AM Monday and testify or provide additional evidence regarding his claims that President Juan Manuel Santos received some $2 million in alleged drug money during his 2010 campaign.
The former head of state said that the prosecutor general’s request showed “animosity, bias, and lack of guarantees (...) of confidentiality,” asserting that the judicial body was not acting impartially. Instead, Uribe plans to take his information regarding Santos’ first presidential bid to the right-wing Inspector General’s Office, according to the El Espectador newspaper.
Last Thursday, Uribe accused Santos Thursday of having received the money through Juan Jose (JJ) Rendon, the president’s now-former political strategist, currently in legal trouble for allegedly accepting $12 million to negotiate some form of demobilization on behalf of several of Colombia’s leading drug lords.
The Venezuelan political spin doctor, who has helped both Santos and Uribe win elections, is said to have agreed to help infamous drug traffickers such as Javier Antonio Calle, alias “Comba,” Diego Rastrojo, and Loco Barrera, present a proposal that sought to end a reported 90% of the narco-trafficking operations in Colombia. While the government ultimately decided to pursue the drug lords rather than negotiate, Rendon allegedly received his payment regardless, for having introduced the proposal to the president.
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