Ministers jailed, former Colombian president fingered by Supreme Court

In one of the toughest judicial pronouncements against the former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe Velez, the Supreme Court points out his direct involvement in offering the Medina bureaucracy to support the proposed constitutional amendment in 2004 to get him re-elected president in Colombia, according to a publication of the newspaper El Tiempo.

The Criminal Chamber of the Court, in a decision appointing four judges and five associate judges condemned the scandal called the “Yidispolítica” Former ministers Pretelt and Diego Palacio, and former Secretary of Casa de Nariño Alberto Velásquez have received sentences of 80 and 60 months in prison.
The ruling, which consists of 321 pages, notes that senior government officials of the time “corrupted” two provincial parliaments and Teodolindo -Yidis Medina Avendaño to obtain approval of the project that enabled Uribe to serve a second term. This reform, says the Supreme Court was in a stage “state bribing the state itself”.

The Court said that “is shown in degree of certainty” in June 2004 in full discussion of reform, the jailed ministers went to the Palacio de Nariño, and met privately with President of the Republic, Dr. Álvaro Uribe Vélez “.