Colombia's Uribe says MI6 part of 'ruse' against him


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  • Thursday, 26 Jul 2018

FILE PHOTO: Colombia's former president Alvaro Uribe Velez speaks to the news media after casting his vote at a polling station, during the presidential election in Bogota, Colombia May 27, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins/File Photo

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's former President Alvaro Uribe on Wednesday accused President Juan Manuel Santos and Britain's MI6 spy agency of participating in a plot against him, a day after resigning his Senate seat to face a bribery and fraud investigation by the Supreme Court.

Uribe, a mentor of Colombia's incoming President Ivan Duque, is under investigation by the court over allegations he made false accusations and tampered with witnesses in a case he himself started by making similar accusations against a leftist senator.

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