Uribe appears before Supreme Court to respond to spying allegations
May 6, 2015
Uribe appears before Supreme Court to respond to spying allegations
posted by Talor Gruenwald
Former President Alvaro Uribe appeared before the Supreme Court on Tuesday to defend himself against allegations that he was involved in illegal spying of the peace talks to benefit the campaign of his hand-picked 2014 presidential candidate.
Uribe explained to the Court that Andres Sepulveda, a hacker who has testified that he was hired by Democratic Center candidate Oscar Ivan Zuluaga to spy on the peace talks, instead infiltrated the campaign of Zuluaga on behalf of incumbent president Juan Manuel Santos in an effort to sabotage it.
While addressing the allegations of Sepulveda was the primary reason Uribe appeared before the Court, he also took the opportunity to vehemently defend a slew of his associates who have recently been convicted of various crimes related to corruption and espionage, submitting a 74 point summary of the “injustices committed against officials who accompanied me in government” when president between 2002 and 2010.
The officials in question included former interior minister Sabas Pretelt and former social minister Diego Palacio, both convicted of bribing Colombian congressmen to support a constitutional amendment that allowed Uribe to run for reelection in 2006. Ex-spy chief Maria del Pilar Hurtado and former chief of staff Bernardo Moreno were also convicted of wiretapping opposition politicians, while Uribe’s former Agriculture Minister Andres Felipe Arias is in the US evading an embezzlement conviction.
More:
http://colombiareports.co/uribe-appears-before-supreme-court-to-respond-to-spying-allegations/
