Farmhand is star witness in investigation against Uribe’s brother
Farmhand is star witness in investigation against Uribe’s brother
posted by Charlie de Rivaz
Sep 30, 2013
The investigation into the links between Santiago Uribe – the brother of former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe – and paramilitary death squads was reopened last week after the testimony of a new witness, a former farmhand, according to newspaper El Espectador.
The evidence given in August by Eunisio Alfonso Pineda Lujan – who used to milk cows, feed pigs and muck out paddocks in the farm next to Uribe’s – added to the 2010 testimony of a retired police major, Juan Carlos Meneses, was considered by the Prosecutor General to be sufficient to reopen the investigation into Santiago Uribe and his alleged links with paramilitaries.
The last investigation had been closed in 2000 for lack of evidence.
Santiago Uribe was allegedly involved in the creation of a paramilitary death squad known as “The 12 Apostles” who operated between 1993 and 1994 in the area of Yarumal, northern Antioquia, where the Uribe family ranch – “Finca Carolina” – was located, and where Uribe’s brother Alvaro was governor from 1995 to 1998.
Santiago Uribe is also implicated in the murder of Camilo Barrientos Duran on February 25, 1994, at Finca Carolina.
More:
http://colombiareports.co/farmhand-star-witness-investigation-uribes-brother/
