Senator Álvaro Uribe defends himself after an appeal to the Supreme Court for an inquiry

Through an 18-point communication, the former president referred to each of the arguments advanced by the High Court to initiate a formal investigation into bribes and fraud.

The former President and Senator of the Republic, Álvaro Uribe Vélez, detailed this Wednesday the appeal to a investigation of the Supreme Court of Justice for the alleged commission of the crimes of procedural fraud, a supposed intention to manipulate witnesses in the lawsuits that leads the political leader, among them Juan Guillermo Monsalve . In a public statement, the president refutes the arguments of the high court and also launches charges. (You may be interested: The reasons for which they called Álvaro Uribe and the representative Álvaro Prada for an interrogation)

This is the complete document:

1. The evidence that I requested was at the initiative of the witnesses or by third party reports.
2. When I inquired at the Supreme Court of the certification of the copies for the handling of witnesses, I explained to the public the testimony that until now I have been informed by the Supreme Court. I had presented. A copy has been deposited in the process.
3. That day, and on other occasions, I asked the citizens to inform me of the cases that they know of handling witnesses against me.
4. In the case of the murder of the doctor Álvaro Gómez Hurtado there is a detailed statement on the witnesses who are abroad, who offered to testify on this murder, on the charges against me. brother and on drug trafficking payments to Santos political advisers with deviations to his campaign, a topic hidden by the authorities at this time.
5. This statement originated in a conversation with the doctor Andrés Felipe Arias at a hearing in Miami in late 2016, in which he informed me that extradited Colombians, who were in the same prison, commented that the accusations against my brother were due to a montage to avenge my decision of extradition.
6. Magistrates are wrong when they say that I asked Juan Carlos Sierra ( El Tuso ), to change the version. The deputy Roque Arismendi told me that his relatives had told him that Mr. Sierra had commented that during his detention in the United States, people had visited him, names that I had. had given to the Court and offered him benefits. Accuse me As soon as I knew, I sent a letter to the court to be heard. I also asked this statement through those who brought me information and a lawyer.
7. About the former attorney and witness Hilda Jeaneth Niño m asked for an appointment with the doctor Hernando Torres Barrera she m & # 39, said that her family is a friend of the family of the former prosecutor and that she was willing to make a statement about the unfair manipulation of the Office of the Prosecutor against my brother. My attorney spoke with her and never offered her benefits that I've never allowed, so now they're talking about a guardianship decision that was produced, which I do not know about or change of place of detention, out of my reach
. On the information of another lawyer, my lawyer contacted the witness Carlos Enríque Vélez whose statement is before the Court.
9. My lawyer took a video to Mrs. Eurydice Cortes (Diana), after another inmate reported that she had important information. The video was filed with the Supreme Court.
10. I was in the countryside at Pacho, Cundinamarca, I was approached by Mr. Hamilton Mosquera he presented himself as demobilized, he m 39; said that he wanted to give me information about people who had made me offers, I sent him to the vehicle and in the presence of the driver and Colonel Gustavo Rodríguez my chief of security, told me the facts, my only answer was to ask him to testify before the Supreme Court. I immediately informed the court and, later, my lawyer contacted Mr. Hamilton.
11. The declarants Elmo José Mármol, Jiovanny Alberto Cadavid and Máximo Cuesta Valencia, were contacted by my lawyer as a result of the information of the physician Angela López at 39. one of my advisers.
12. Mrs. Vicky Jaramillo told me that the witness Juan Guillermo Monsalve was repentant, that he wanted to correct the lies against me, that she knew through Ricardo Williamson ] brother-in-law of the prisoner Enríque Pardo . I told Vicky to tell the lawyer who made contact with Mr. Monsalve. He told me that he had asked for legal advice and security, which I responded by stating that he had done so publicly and before the court.
13. Mr. Monsalve tried to involve other people in the same trap, including doctors Jaime Lombana Ernesto Macías Paloma Valencia a Member of Parliament of Huila Álvaro Hernán Prada .
14. The doctor Jaime Lombana who totally ignored the problem, publicly reported how Monsalve used his visit Enríque Pardo to try to involve him.
15. The doctors Ernesto Macías Paloma Valencia and a deputy from Huila did not fall into the trap either.
16. The physician Álvaro Hernán Prada addressed the court and the public giving his version of the facts. They approached him, they told him the intention to rectify Monsalve he called me, he asked me if this witness existed, I ' I said yes, I wanted to rectify and I replied something like I hope that he is telling the truth. Some time later, the doctor Prada informed me that everything had been a montage, of little importance attributed until the journalists who mistreat me usually appear
17. I am surprised that the magistrates were not interested in knowing and evaluating this version, and that they call me for questioning because of the manipulation of the witnesses and the procedural fraud. And that media and political pressure be imposed and that justice be administered through leaks to political stakeholders
. I will transmit this document to the magistrates and I will develop it in all that I know,

Álvaro Uribe Vélez
July 25, 2018