Uribe denies brother had ties to Pablo Escobar .
Uribe denies brother had ties to Pablo Escobar .
Sunday, 10 June 2012 13:09 Adriaan Alsema
Colombia's ex-President Alvaro Uribe on Sunday denied his late brother Jaime had ties with drug lord Pablo Escobar as alleged in reports on the imminent extradition of Uribe's sister-in-law and niece to the U.S. to face drug trafficking and money laundering charges.
According to research center Nuevo Arco Iris and Semana columnist Daniel Coronell, Jaime Uribe was arrested and interrogated by the army in 1986 after investigators discovered there had been calls made from Uribe's phone to Pablo Escobar. The case never made it to court, both reports said.
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According to 1991 U.S. military intelligence files, The former President was a "close friend" of Pablo Escobar, who according to Colombian newspaper archives lent Uribe one of his helicopters in 1983 when his father was killed and his brother Santiago was injured by FARC guerrillas.
Santiago is facing a criminal investigation for the alleged founding and leading of a paramilitary group and Uribe's cousin Mario was convicted for his ties to the paramilitary organization AUC. The former President has on several occasions and by several people been accused of having had ties to this organization. Uribe has categorically denied ties to drug trafficking or paramilitary organizations
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