US EditionColombia ex-president Uribe sentenced to 12 years of house arrest, will appeal
COLOMBIA, AUG 01 – Uribe was fined $578,000 and banned from public office for over eight years after a nearly six-month trial that exposed efforts to influence testimony from jailed paramilitary members.
- Álvaro Uribe, the former Colombian President, was sentenced to 12 years of house arrest for witness tampering and bribery on August 1, 2025, which he plans to appeal.
- The sentencing followed a trial where evidence indicated Uribe attempted to influence witnesses regarding alleged links to a paramilitary group in the 1990s.
- Judge Sandra Heredia also prohibited Uribe from holding public office for eight years after his conviction.
- Uribe described the case as 'political persecution' and emphasized the need to focus on solutions during crises.
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In the ruling handed down in one of the longest trials in Colombia, Bogotá Circuit criminal judge Sandra Liliana Heredia decided that there was enough evidence to convict former President Álvaro Uribe for the crimes of procedural fraud and bribery in criminal proceedings, while he excused him, of course, from the bribery of witnesses.The former president, who claims to be a victim of political persecution, has led an extensive judicial process t…
For influencing witnesses and bribery.
Washington, 2 Aug (EFE).- Republican congresswoman María Elvira Salazar described this Saturday as “infamy” the 12-year home sentence for former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe and accused the current president, Gustavo Petro, of being behind the decision. “In Colombia, an infamy has been committed against President Álvaro Uribe. It is the same libretto that Fidel Castro has used and that Hugo Chávez has used in Venezuela,” said Salazar, a Cuba…
The Colombian College of Jurists has expressed serious doubts about the validity of certain aspects of the sentence handed down this Friday against former President Álvaro Uribe, who sentenced him to 12 years of house arrest for bribing witnesses in a criminal case and…
Bogotá. Álvaro Uribe, former president of Colombia from 2002 to 2010, was sentenced yesterday to 12 years in house imprisonment, to a fine of $776 thousand and to disqualification from holding public office for 100 months and 20 days, for the crimes of bribery of witnesses and procedural fraud, announced Judge Sandra Liliana Heredia. The first instance ruling was appealed by the defense of the former president.
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