This Friday, the main defender of Álvaro Uribe Vélez, the criminal Jaime Granados, made clarifications on the pronouncements of the Prosecutor’s Office and the Public Ministry in the hearing that is brought against Diego Cadena, former lawyer of the former president and current senator.
According to Granados, in this proceeding, carried out before the 35th Criminal Court for the control of guarantees in Bogotá, “various manifestations contrary to the truth”.
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EL TIEMPO learned of an 11-point communiqué through which Granados clarifies the arguments of the representation of the Prosecutor’s Office and the Public Ministry.
“We cannot remain silent when affirmations are made that do not correspond to the truth, especially when it may have some impact on public perception of behavior that, with absolute transparency, President Álvaro Uribe Vélez displayed in these events, “the document reads.
In the first place, according to the criminal lawyer, “it is inexplicable that the Prosecutor’s Office and the Public Ministry have failed to point out that for August 15, 2017, when the first letter signed by Carlos Enrique Vélez, dated 18 July 2017, said witness had already given, eight months ago, the same version of a statement due diligence under the oath that he took, precisely, before the office of Judge José Luis Barceló. “
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The criminal Diego Cadena assures that he has acted in accordance with the law.
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Granados added that it is being maintained that this July 18 document corresponds to a version “assembled” by lawyer Cadena, “when the same witness verbally, in his own words and under the gravity of the oath, had said exactly the same thing since December 2016, act in which the lawyer Diego Cadena had no interference, since Carlos Enrique Vélez himself has said that he came to know him only until July 18, 2017 “.
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Another issue that Jaime Granados reproached was a version of the representative of the Public Ministry, according to which he had sent the Supreme Court a letter signed by Carlos Vélez, which “hinted that the act had led to the induction to error “. And he clarified that neither he nor Cadena presented that document, but that Vélez did it directly.
In addition, the criminal lawyer Granados referred to the process that the Supreme Court of Justice is carrying out against former President Uribe.
Although we are respectful of the institutions, we cannot, in a debate that is public, keep silent
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“As regards the case of Juan Guillermo Monsalve, I must be absolutely clear, I never presented any letter or retraction signed by said witness as, contrary to reality, The Prosecutor’s Office and the Public Ministry gave it to understand in their intervention, “Granados said in the statement.
Although Granados acknowledged that there is a letter presented by Molsalve to the Court, of April 2, 2018, he said that this was not brought by either him or Diego Cadena, but was made by Monsalve’s wife. In addition, he stressed that “said document could not induce anyone in error, since it did not entail any retraction or change of version”.
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Regarding the letters signed by Carlos Enrique Vélez, Jaime Granados indicated that they were indeed provided to the Court, but not in the process against ex-president Uribe, but in the one that that corporation was advancing against senator Iván Cepeda Castro.
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