Overview
- A three-judge panel found Álvaro Uribe’s brother guilty of aggravated homicide and aggravated criminal conspiracy.
- Judges said he led the 12 Apostles in the early 1990s and ordered the 1994 killing of bus driver Camilo Barrientos near the La Carolina ranch.
- The ruling describes the group as a death squad that carried out “social cleansing” and operated from the Uribe family ranch with cooperation from some state agents.
- The decision overturns a lower-court acquittal issued last year, and the defense says it will appeal as the case moves to Colombia’s Supreme Court.
- Prosecutors link the 12 Apostles to at least 300 killings and dozens of disappearances, while former President Álvaro Uribe noted “deep pain” over the sentence after his own conviction was thrown out in October.