A Medellín judge absolves Santiago Uribe Vélez, brother of former President Alvaro Uribe, accused of forming a paramilitary clan

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Santiago Uribe Vélez, the younger brother of the former right-wing president Álvaro Uribe Vélez, has been acquitted of the trial by concert for crime and aggravated homicide that the Prosecutor's Office has been investigating since 1997. Judge Jaime Herrera Niño, who has had the file since 2016, announced the decision on Wednesday, almost three years after the end of the trial. Although details are not yet known, the ex-mandator, one of the firs…

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Petro said that “impunity leads us only to more violence,” without directly mentioning the Uribes. The cattleman Santiago Uribe, brother of former President Álvaro Uribe, was acquitted by a judge from Medellín, in a case in which he was accused of creating and financing the paramilitary group ‘The Twelve Apostles’. The final stage of the trial began in January 2021 and since then a sentence was expected, which was finally heard on Thursday and i…

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A Colombian judge on Wednesday acquitted the brother of the influential former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez of the crimes of homicide and conspiracy to commit crimes for the formation of an armed paramilitary group, a case that has been defended for three decades.

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Santiago Uribe, brother of former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez, was acquitted on the case of the 'Twelve Apostles', in which he was accused of financing groups

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President Gustavo Petro expressed his concern after learning of Santiago Uribe Vélez’s acquittal in the case of “The Twelve Apostles”, emphasizing that impunity only leads to more cycles of violence in Colombia. The ruling of the Superior Court of Medellín, which exonerates the brother of former President Alvaro Uribe from his alleged participation in the creation and leadership of the paramilitary group “the 12 Apostles”, contrasts with new evi…

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The first specialized criminal judge of Antioquia, Jaime Herrera Niño, acquitted the farmer Santiago Uribe Vélez, brother of former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez, on Wednesday in the trial for the crimes of aggravated homicide and concert for aggravated crime. The case relates to the crime of the driver Camilo Barrientos Durán, murdered on 25 February 1994 on the Yarumal-Campamento route, after having been pointed out to be collaborating with the…