The State of Colombia vs Alvaro Uribe Day 5: the friend, the security chief, the politician and th
The State of Colombia vs Alvaro Uribe | Day 5: the friend, the security chief, the politician and the paramilitary
by Adriaan Alsema September 12, 2019
On the fifth day of Colombia’s trial of the century, the Supreme Court on Wednesday was scheduled to hear the testimonies of two former paramilitary chiefs, one politician and the security chief of former President Alvaro Uribe.
The hearings are being held behind closed doors and no information was leaked to the press about the content of the testimonies.
Hernando Mauricio Marroquin
Hernando Mauricio Marroquin was called to testify by House Representative Alvaro Hernan Prada who, like Uribe, has been charged with fraud and bribery because of his alleged attempts to manipulate witnesses who have testified that the former president and his brother formed a death squad in the 1990s.
According to Prada, Marroquin is his neighbor and friend who helped him and another friend of Prado, Rodrigo Vidal, meet up with businessman Carlos Lopez, who was wiretapped when calling one of the key witnesses who claim Uribe formed a death squad five days after the court filed criminal charges against the far-right politicians in February last year.
In that phone call Lopez told Luis Guillermo Monsalve that “they’re terrified. Mr. Prada is scared shitless and the son of a bitch asked me to help.”
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