Álvaro Uribe, Colombian president between 2002 and 2010, was found guilty of bribing witnesses and abuse of process by a Bogotá court on Monday, making him the country's first former president to be criminally convicted.
Judge Sandra Heredia Aranda said it was "proven" that Uribe and his legal team tried to flip witnesses who were due to testify to his involvement with right-wing paramilitary organizations in a separate criminal investigation that ended in 2018.
