Uribe aides might go to jail over fraudulent reelection referendum process .
Uribe aides might go to jail over fraudulent reelection referendum process .
Saturday, 09 February 2013 21:51 Adriaan Alsema
A former congressmen and eight other allies of former President Alvaro Uribe might go to jail while awaiting trial over their alleged role in fraud committed during a failed attempt to have Colombia's former head of state reelected for the third time in 2010.
According to newspaper El Espectador, a prosecutor plans to ask a judge to jail the "uribista" commission that carried out the fraudulent reelection project over excessive delays that, according to the prosecution are cause by the defense of former Congressman Luis Guillermo Giraldo and eight others.
The proposal to allow the reelection bid of the former President through a referendum had been approved by congress in 2009, but was sunk by the constitutional court that had established fraud in the process leading up to the congressional vote.
Congress passed the referendum bill in spite of the country's electoral authorities who had already condemned the process for violating financial regulations and the involvement of a now-convicted drug money launderer.
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