The process returned to that court as a result of the time that the former paramilitary leader has been detained.
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The Constitutional Court ordered the Justice and Peace Chamber of the Superior Court of Bogotá to resolve within one month the request to replace the security measure of former paramilitary chief Salvatore Mancuso.
For the high court, due process was not protected by the Superior Court of Bogotá, in response to a protection filed by the former head of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, asking to be released.
The explanation of why Mancuso’s procedural guarantees would not have been respected began with a consideration by the high court about the extra time he was detained by the Justice and Peace court.
That decision was made in the process that Salvatore Mancuso is leading for money laundering and in which a restraining order was imposed on him nine years ago, a time that they argue exceeds the time of the sentence.
“In which an accusation was formulated against the defendant 9 years ago as an impediment to giving the accredited person paragraph 5 of article 18, it would imply that the security measure imposed on a person subject to criminal proceedings would last indefinitely,” details the Constitutional Court.
