Former President of Colombia, Alvara Urbe, sentenced to 12 years arrest

Colombian former President Alvaro Urbe was sentenced to 12 -year -old house arrest for witness fraud and charges of fraud.

A 73-year-old boy is the first former president in the country’s history for a crime. It was also banned from the public office and fined $ 578 (435,000 pounds).

Uriebe, who supports his innocence, told the judge in Bogota that he would turn to his conviction. He said the case was supposed to “destroy the voice for the democratic opposition.”

He was president since 2002-2010 and remains popular in Colombia, despite the fact that he was accused of working with right-wing paramilrators to destroy left-wing rebel groups. The statement he denies.

The former president has been convicted Of the two allegations on Monday, a witness, which has been around for about 13 years.

Two ex-paraffin in prison gave evidence in which former URIBE Diego Kaden’s lawyer offered them money to testify in favor of Uribe.

Caden, who is also threatened by the charge, denies the allegations and testified with several other former attacks on behalf of Uribe.

Earlier this week, US Secretary of State Mark Rubio condemned Urbe’s criminal record, accusing Colombia in weapons.

“The only crime of the former president was to fight and defend his homeland tirelessly,” Rubio wrote on the social media website.

Varunic groups appeared in Colombia in the 1980s with the stated purpose – to take over poverty and marginalization. They fought with the Marxist guerrilla groups that fought with the state two decades before.

Many of the armed groups that developed in the confrontation made a profit from the cocaine trade. The deadly struggles between them and the state have created strong rivalry for routes and trade resources.

Uriebe was highly appreciated by Washington for his hard approach to the left-wing Farc-but was a separate politician who, according to critics, was little engaged in inequality and poverty in the country.

Farc has signed a peace treaty with the successor of Urbe in 2016, although the Colombia is abused by disarmed groups.