{"id":3866,"date":"2025-08-01T19:14:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/colombia-ex-president-sentenced-to-12-years-of-house-arrest-document-shows\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T19:14:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:14:03","slug":"colombia-ex-president-sentenced-to-12-years-of-house-arrest-document-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/colombia-ex-president-sentenced-to-12-years-of-house-arrest-document-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia ex-president sentenced to 12 years of house arrest, document shows"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tBOGOTA: Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe will be sentenced on Friday to 12 years of house arrest for abuse of process and bribery of a public official, according to a document seen by Reuters and a source with knowledge of the matter.<\/p>\n

\tUribe was convicted of the two charges on Monday by Judge Sandra Liliana Heredia in a witness-tampering case that has run for about 13 years. He has always maintained his innocence.<\/p>\n

\tThe information, also published by local media, came hours ahead of the hearing where Heredia will read the sentence in court.<\/p>\n

\tUribe will be fined $578,000 in the case, the document showed.<\/p>\n

\tThe conviction made him the country’s first ex-president to ever be found guilty at trial and came less than a year before Colombia’s 2026 presidential election, in which several of Uribe’s allies and proteges are competing for top office.<\/p>\n

\tIt could also have implications for Colombia’s relationship with the US: Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this week Uribe’s conviction is a “weaponization of Colombia’s judicial branch by radical judges” and analysts have said there could be cuts to US aid in response.<\/p>\n

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\tUribe, 73, and his supporters have always said the process is a persecution, while his detractors have celebrated it as deserved comeuppance for a man who has been accused for decades of close ties with violent right-wing paramilitaries but never convicted of any crime until now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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BOGOTA: Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe will be sentenced on Friday to 12 years of house arrest for abuse of process and bribery of a public official, according to a document seen by Reuters and a source with knowledge of the matter. Uribe was convicted of the two charges on Monday by Judge Sandra Liliana…<\/p>\n

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