According to the NYT, three witnesses would link Santiago Uribe to the group Los 12 Apóstoles

The archives to which The New York Times has access contain audio recordings in which workers link Uribe Vélez to paramilitary groups

An article published by The New York Times reveals fragments of the three testimonies that the Colombian justice would have and which would imply Santiago Uribe, brother of the senator and former president Álvaro Uribe, with paramilitary groups. (Read: Santiago Uribe Vélez is free, but can not leave the country)

Santiago Uribe Vélez was accused of the murder of Camilo Barrientos a bus driver from Yarumal, Antioquia, who was reportedly executed for his allegations Nexus with the guerrillas. A crime framed in the context of Los 12 Apóstoles, a paramilitary group that settled in Yarumal and the neighboring municipalities. However, he vehemently denied both the crime and his participation in this "para" group.

"Santiago Uribe is awaiting trial for having sponsored a death squad called Los 12 Apóstoles, who is suspected of being involved in hundreds of murders. Álvaro Uribe does it. subject to an investigation by the Supreme Court for alleged manipulation of witnesses in a case involving charges that he would have operated a paramilitary group his account, "the newspaper said.

Read: The record of Santiago Uribe Vélez and the confirmation of his trial

In addition, the records to which he had access The New York Times contain audio recordings in which the workers that the media preferred not to reveal their name to protect them, say Santiago Uribe Vélez with the paramilitary Jose Alberto Osorio Rojas and with Pelusa, a hitman of the paramilitary group.

The first criminal court of the specialized circuit of Antioquia released Uribe, in March of this year. The judge in the case admitted that Uribe Velez should recover his freedom after two years of detention. The employer will come to the end of his trial in complete freedom.

Following the publication, Senator Álvaro Uribe Vélez said on his social network Twitter: "For those who use the pain of murder to blame me: There is no minister of the Defense, a high officer, a soldier or a policeman, among the hundreds with whom I interacted as governor or as president who can say that I gave a bad example of a word, act, action or omission. "