Overview

• Judge Sandra Heredia found Uribe guilty of two counts of procedural fraud and three counts of bribery for allegedly offering benefits to paramilitary witnesses in 2017–2018.
• He received the maximum 12-year house arrest sentence, which takes effect immediately instead of confinement in a standard prison.
• The court also barred him from public office for eight years and ordered payment of roughly $820,000 in fines.
• Uribe’s defense will file an appeal in Bogotá’s Superior Court by mid-October, with a potential further challenge to the Supreme Court.
• The unprecedented conviction has intensified domestic political divides and prompted U.S. Senator Marco Rubio to decry alleged judicial bias.