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Iván Cepeda: “Álvaro Uribe Believed that His Immense Power Was Going to Submit to Justice as if It Were His Political Party”

Summary by El Pais
Iván Cepeda Castro (Bogotá, 62) speaks with the serenity of the person who has already played his last card. “I stopped being in this as if it were a punishment. I am having fun, I find it exciting,” he says to refer to the trial for bribery of witnesses and procedural fraud against former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, a political and judicial process that has extended for 13 years and has finally reached its last stage this week. The official s…

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After more than ten years of controversy and seven years of judicial proceedings against former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez enters its final line. On July 8, the closing arguments in the 44th Criminal Court of the Bogotá Circuit ended, and it was set on July 28 as the date on which Judge Sandra Heredia will announce the ruling of first instance. That day it will be known whether Uribe is found guilty or innocent of the crimes of bribery, briber…

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Iván Cepeda Castro (Bogotá, 62) speaks with the serenity of the person who has already played his last card. “I stopped being in this as if it were a punishment. I am having fun, I find it exciting,” he says to refer to the trial for bribery of witnesses and procedural fraud against former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, a political and judicial process that has extended for 13 years and has finally reached its last stage this week. The official s…

·Spain
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The 3 scenarios Alvaro Uribe has for the July 28 hearing: can he go to jail? This is what could happen.

·Colombia
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Parties could appeal, go to cassation, and eventually request double compliance.

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El Pais broke the news in Spain on Thursday, July 10, 2025.
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