Extradited paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso will testify from the prison he now calls home in the U.S. in the ”parapolitics’ case against liberal senator Juan Manuel López Cabrales.
The former chief of the demobilized umbrella paramilitary group United Self Defense Forces of Colombia, AUC for its Spanish initials, requested in a September 16 letter to the director of international affairs at the U.S. Department of Justice to testify in person, but was refused.
Mancuso has repeatedly accused López Cabrales of making pacts with the AUC and later breaking them, beginning the difficulties the organization had with the government, reported El Colombiano.
He will be the final witness against the liberal senator, who has always denied the accusations that he had links with AUC groups and sustained that he signed a pact with a paramilitary known as ‘Ralito’ in 2001 due to death threats against him and his family.