Paramilitaries donated $1 million to Uribe’s 2002 campaign: ‘Don Berna’
Paramilitaries donated $1 million to Uribe’s 2002 campaign: ‘Don Berna’
posted by Adriaan Alsema
Sep 16, 2013
Paramilitary commander “Don Berna” has told Colombia’s Supreme Court that his organization, the AUC, donated a million dollars to the successful 2002 election campaign of former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, reported Noticias Uno on Sunday.
The newscast said the Supreme Court had sent copies of the extradited paramilitary leader’s testimony to Congress weeks after a Medellin judge ordered the Accusations Committee to investigate the former head of state for his alleged ties to paramilitary death squads.
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Uribe has long been accused of having ties to the paramilitary organization and is already being investigated by the country’s Prosecutor General’s Office for his alleged role in the forming of a paramilitary organization in his home department of Antioquia.
The former president’s brother is investigated for similar charges, while Uribe’s cousin — a former senator — is in prison for collaborating with the AUC in order to receive the electoral support needed to be elected into Congress.
More:
http://colombiareports.co/paramilitaries-donated-1-million-uribes-2002-campaign-don-berna/
