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Colombia's former president becomes inmate #1087985
by Adriaan Alsema August 12, 2020
Colombia’s former president Alvaro Uribe said Wednesday he has been assigned his own inmate number after being placed under house arrest for allegedly tampering witnesses.
In his first tweet in almost a week, Uribe claimed he had been assigned inmate number #1087985 “for confronting testimonies brought against me by [demobilized guerrilla group] FARC, its new generation and its allies.”
The Supreme Court placed Uribe under house arrest last week after formally charging the former president with fraud and bribery.
According to the court, evidence indicates that the former president bribed witnesses initially to file false charges against opposition Senator Ivan Cepeda in 2014 and again in 2018 after the Supreme Court ordered to investigate Uribe.
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Uribe and his brother Santiago have been sinking deeper and deeper into legal trouble over their alleged involvement in the formation of death squads in the 1990s’s and alleged attempt to subsequently cover this up.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-former-president-becomes-inmate-1087985/
