Uribe found guilty of witness tampering
On 28 July 2025 a Bogotá judge found former President Álvaro Uribe guilty of witness tampering and procedural fraud, the first criminal conviction of a former Colombian president; he was sentenced to 12 years of house arrest on 1 August. A Bogotá appeals court overturned the conviction on 21 October 2025.
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On 28 July 2025 a Bogotá judge found former President Álvaro Uribe guilty of witness tampering and procedural fraud, the first criminal conviction of a former Colombian president; he was sentenced to 12 years of house arrest on 1 August. A Bogotá appeals court overturned the conviction on 21 October 2025.
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Álvaro Uribe
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Uribe found guilty of witness tampering. Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.
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Factrail. (2026). Uribe found guilty of witness tampering. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/uribe-convicted-witness-tampering-2025-07-28
https://factrail.ai/facts/uribe-convicted-witness-tampering-2025-07-28
Accessed 15 October 2026.
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