Allvaro Uribe has become the first former former Colombian President who has been convicted of crime.
A 73-year-old man in Bogota found a 73-year-old man, who was the President from 2002 to 2010, guilty of witnessing and accused of cheating.
He was convicted of trying to bribe witnesses in a separate investigation into the allegations that he had relations with right -wing paramilitary, who was responsible for the human rights violation.
Each charge is in jail for 12 years. Uribe is expected to appeal for the decision, always maintain their innocence.
Uribe is known for an aggressive aggressive growing against the Left Guerrilla Group The Revolutionary Armed Force of Columbia (FARC) during his tenure. He has always denied relations with right -wing paramilitary.
The former President nodded his head as the verdict was pronounced, the AFP said, in the test, which has testified more than 90 witnesses.
US State Secretary Marco Rubio has condemned the court’s decision, accusing the country’s judiciary of being armed.
The former President has been “only tirelessly fighting crime and protecting his motherland,” he wrote on the social media site, X.
The result comes more than a decade after the first charge of Uribe was charged in 2012.
At that time, he accused a leftist senator, Ivan Cededa of a conspiracy against him. Uribe claimed that Cededa wanted to incorrectly connect him to the right -wing paramilitary groups involved in Colombia’s internal armed conflict.
But the Supreme Court of the country dismissed the claims of the former President against Cipada, instead investigated Uribe for relations.
The former President was then accused of contacting the former fighters and bribing them to deny the connection with paramilitary groups – tampering with major witnesses.
Uribe said that he wanted to convince the former-fieters to tell the truth.
The paramilitary groups emerged in the 1980s with a declared target of poverty and marginalized in Colombia. He fought the Marxist-inspired guerrilla groups who were struggling with the kingdom two decades ago.
Many of the armed groups developed in deadlock created an income from cocaine trade. Violent and fatal battles with him and the state have produced permanent rivalry for smuggling routes and resources.
Uribe’s Washington was praised for his hard-line approach to the FARC rebels-but was a divisive politician whose critics say that the country had very little to improve inequality and poverty.
FARC signed a peace agreement with Uribe’s successor in 2016, although the violence from unarmed groups persists in Colombia.
