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Colombia's Supreme Court advised to uphold Uribe's house arrest: report
by Adriaan Alsema
October 5, 2020
Colombia’s prosecution’s attempt to revoke the house arrest of former president Alvaro Uribe may be blocked by the Supreme Court, weekly Semana reported Sunday.
According to the weekly, Supreme Court magistrate Gerson Chaverra advised his colleagues to deny the prosecution’s request to revoke Uribe’s house arrest and start the far-right politician’s fraud and bribery trial from scratch.
The advice is a major setback for Uribe, who resigned from the Senate in August in the hope that waiving his congressional privilege would compel the Supreme Court to transfer his witness tampering trial to a lower court.
The Supreme Court agreed, but the Bogota judge who was put in charge of the case referred the request of controversial prosecutor Gabriel Jaimes to reset the investigation that began in 2018 and release Uribe back to the high court.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-supreme-court-advised-to-uphold-uribes-house-arrest-report/