2024-05-17 02:58:39
Right this moment the trial in opposition to Álvaro Hernán Prada begins within the Particular Chamber – first occasion – of the Supreme Court docket of Justice. He’s being investigated for his alleged participation in bribing a witness in a case in opposition to former President Uribe. The investigations by the presidential marketing campaign of the Historic Pact Coalition generated discomfort within the Presidency, which led to ‘unblocking’ the judicial course of in opposition to Prada.
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The Particular First Occasion Chamber of the Supreme Court docket of Justice summoned the previous congressman and present choose of the Nationwide Electoral Council (CNE), Álvaro Hernán Prada, to the primary listening to within the course of introduced in opposition to him for alleged bribery of witnesses.
The previous consultant to the Home is concerned in the identical judicial mess for which former President Álvaro Uribe was placed on trial. Based on the physique of proof, Prada would have ended up concerned for supposedly desirous to favor his political chief and godfather of his twin youngsters.
Based on the investigation, the previous congressman was a part of a bunch of people that tried to alter the testimony of Juan Guillermo Monsalve, a person with a felony previous who has accused the previous head of state of supposedly facilitating the formation of paramilitary teams in Antioquia. They contemplate him the ‘star witness’ on this case.
The historical past of the method
In July 2021, with a presentation by Choose César Augusto Reyes, the excessive court docket decided to keep up jurisdiction to proceed investigating the previous consultant, who additionally wished to evade the orbit of the Court docket by renouncing his seat within the Capitol in order that his case could possibly be handed on to the Prosecutor’s Workplace. .
At the moment, the Supreme Court docket thought of that the allegedly felony conduct for which he was being investigated was associated to his position as a congressman. “The crime might have materialized for trigger, on the event of congressional service and within the train of his capabilities, since he would have used his investiture as consultant and as director of the Democratic Middle social gathering in Huila to show the doable behaviors of bribery of a witness who compromise,” the Court docket emphasised in July 2021 when it determined to keep up jurisdiction to evaluate Prada.
The excessive court docket collected proof indicating that Prada would have doable hyperlinks with Carlos Eduardo López Callejas, often called ‘Caliche’, a convict who seems in chats during which a doable retraction by Monsalve is talked about.
Why does justice level it out?
Prada is accused of getting contacted and pressured some witnesses to alter their variations to learn his compadre, former President Uribe.
Based on Prada’s model, she felt harassed by the Supreme Court docket of Justice, which might not have thought of fifteen items of proof that might exhibit that the allegations in opposition to her aren’t true. Uribe, who resigned his seat within the Senate for a similar purpose, bought his case out of that court docket to be studied by the Lawyer Normal’s Workplace. Prada was not so fortunate.
Among the many Uribistas – Democratic Middle – this solely fueled the concept it’s essential to reform the powers of the excessive courts. Prada had already considered it earlier than, after the Constitutional Court docket struck down tasks similar to life sentences for baby rapists. So he actively tried to restrict the facility of that court docket.
Why do you defend Uribe?
For the previous consultant to the Chamber for Huila, the legacy of former President Uribe served as a counterweight to the leftist insurance policies that received in Latin America within the first decade of the 2000s. “I consider that this mannequin was profitable not just for Colombia, however for Latin America, and it additionally turned an vital solution to defend democracy from that totalitarian system that has been impoverishing nations in Latin America,” he assured a nationwide media outlet.
Magistrates investigated earlier than the Prosecutor’s Workplace
Benjamín Ortiz and Álvaro Hernán Prada, the judges of the Nationwide Electoral Council (CNE), who ready a presentation during which they speak about investigating and announcing fees in opposition to the candidate Gustavo Petro – immediately head of State, have been criminally denounced earlier than the Lawyer Normal’s Workplace.
The complainant is Elmer José Montaña, who said that “judges Prada and Ortiz carried out an administrative act manifestly opposite to the regulation, by opening an investigation and formulating fees in opposition to President Gustavo Petro, throughout the framework of the investigation carried out in opposition to the presidential marketing campaign of the Historic Pact Coalition.
What’s within the presentation, which will probably be debated within the CNE plenary session with the remainder of the members, is that within the Petro Presidente marketing campaign the electoral limits would have been exceeded. A minimum of 5.3 billion pesos are documented that might not add as much as the marketing campaign accounts, a scenario that might have generated discomfort within the nationwide authorities and that after once more ‘unblocked’ the trial in opposition to Prada.
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CNE Justice of the Peace
In September 2022, Álvaro Hernán Prada was elected Justice of the Peace of the Nationwide Electoral Council (CNE). “The total chamber of the CNE elected Choose Fabiola Márquez Grisales as President and Choose Álvaro Hernán Prada as Vice President,” the electoral authority indicated in an announcement.
The election of Hernán Prada as a CNE Justice of the Peace was a call made by his social gathering, Democratic Middle. In August 2022, the plenary session of Congress was convened to elect the 9 officers who would occupy the magistrates of the electoral authority between 2022 and 2026. The Democratic Middle – the social gathering that gave approval to Prada to be a consultant to the Chamber for Huila – voted principally for him.
Monsalve, the controversial witness
Juan Guillermo Monsalve is the witness that has former President Álvaro Uribe in authorized issues. Monsalve claims to have been contacted by Diego Cadena to retract what he mentioned and provide an apology to the previous president.
Monsalve, sentenced in 2008 to 40 years in jail for severe crimes, claims to have been a part of the paramilitary ranks and maintains that he was approached by Diego Cadena, Uribe’s lawyer on the time (2018), in an try and receive his favorable assertion. in direction of the previous president. This accusation locations Uribe in a weak place, going through allegations of getting pressured former paramilitaries to affect his favor earlier than the Supreme Court docket.
In a recording, Enrique Pardo Hasche, Monsalve’s former cellmate, seems to supply him advantages in alternate for recanting. This audio provides to the proof introduced earlier than the Supreme Court docket, rising the strain on Uribe.
Monsalve’s historical past is intrinsically linked to the Guacharacas hacienda, the place his father was administrator and the place a paramilitary group allegedly operated throughout Uribe’s time period as governor of Antioquia.
Ought to Prada be refused?
The impartiality of Álvaro Hernán Padra is at stake after the trills of the previous consultant to the Chamber got here to mild, the place he referred to the then congressman Petro because the instigator to take former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez to jail.
Lawyer Miguel Ángel del Río, recognized for his help of the president, questioned the impartiality of Prada (as a choose of the Nationwide Electoral Council) to hold out the method for alleged violation of limits within the presidential marketing campaign of the present head of state.
Final Wednesday, Might 8, the choice of the Nationwide Electoral Council (CNE) to file fees in opposition to the presidential marketing campaign of the present president Gustavo Petro, and Ricardo Roa, at the moment supervisor of Ecopetrol, for allegedly exceeding the financing limits in his actions was introduced. marketing campaign in 2022.
Lawyer Miguel Ángel del Río Malo rescued a number of publications from the previous Twitter, immediately the social community X, of Álvaro Hernán Prada. There, Prada mentions (February 23, 2018): “The FARC have said, like their buddies Cepeda, Petro and Gustavo Bolívar, that their predominant goal is to place Uribe in jail. “Santos lends himself, just like the traitor he’s.”
Based on the jurist, the expressions in these publications have been in opposition to Petro and the leftist actions, so it could be evident that he wouldn’t be honest within the investigation that will probably be carried out in that group.
“He should declare himself prevented from investigating President Petro’s marketing campaign (sic),” the jurist trilled together with a screenshot of one of many controversial publications of the previous congressman as nicely.
Screenshot of the publication by former congressman Álvaro Hernán Prada made on the X community in 2018.
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