The preliminary hearing in the Coral case resumed yesterday after being suspended for a week due to the challenge filed against judge Yanibet Rivas, which was rejected.
Consequently, the magistrate of the Sixth Investigative Court of the National District was ratified in the case, which is in the reading phase of the accusation presented by the Public Ministry against Adán Cáceres and the other defendants.
Rivas was challenged last week by the lawyer Waldo Paulino, defender of the defendants Boanerges Batista and Franklin Mata Flores, for alleged partiality.
After analyzing the situation, the First Chamber of the Court of Appeal for the National District determined that there are no reasons for the judge to be removed from the case.
Once the decision was read at the hearing, in the presence of the defendants, defense attorneys, prosecutors and State attorneys, the judge ordered the continuation of the hearing, which was delayed due to the recusal and health problems of one of the accused .
At the hearing, the prosecutors are reading the accusation presented by the Public Ministry against the defendants, which contains more than three thousand pages, of which more than two thousand have already been read.
The Public Ministry charged 30 people and 18 companies, which are accused of corruption and defrauding the Dominican State with more than 4,000 million pesos.
In this case, there are military, civil and religious involved. The network of corruption, which was allegedly led by Major Adán Cáceres Silvestre, operated in the Presidential Security Corps (Cusep), the Specialized Tourist Security Corps (Cestur) and the National Council for Children and Adolescents (Conani).
