Two ministers for then President Alvaro Uribe have been sentenced to six years in jail for bribing lawmakers to support the conservative leader’s 2006 re-election.
The conviction of former Interior Minister Sabas Pretelt and Social Protection Minister Diego Palacio was handed down Wednesday by Colombia’s Supreme Court.
A former congresswoman in 2008 accused the Uribe aides of offering her favors and political appointments in exchange for supporting the lifting of a constitutional ban on presidential re-election.
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