Businessman Ramón Emilio Jiménez Collie (Mimilo) along with five other defendants was definitively removed from the file of the “Calamar” case, following the decision taken yesterday by the Fourth Court of Instruction of the National District to approve the agreements that the Public Prosecutor’s Office made with them.
Jiménez Collie (Mimilo) agreed to return 117 million pesos and several properties, in exchange for not being included in the file and serving as a witness to inform on his colleagues.
From being the main defendants, Jimenez Collie (Mimilo), Fernando Crisostomo Herrera, Jose Arturo Ureña Perez, Bolivar Antonio Ventura Rodriguez, Natalia Cesarina Beltre Torres and Belkis Antonia Tejeda became simple informants in the case.
Judge Altagracia Ramírez also declared the plaintiffs and civil parties inadmissible, considering that at this stage of the request for opportunity criteria it was not prudent to accept it.
The full reading of the sentence will be on September 20.
Mirna Ortiz, litigation coordinator of the PEPCAsaid that the criteria of opportunity were applied in the agreements, taking into account the collaboration of those under investigation.
The court prosecutor refers to article 370, paragraph 6 of the Criminal Procedure Code, which empowers her to make agreements with defendants and offer them the opportunity criterion, in exchange for admission of guilt and collaboration in the investigation of the punishable act.
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Pepca formally accused 34 people and 13 companies of having defrauded the State of more than 41 billion pesos through “simulated credit transfer contracts without cause or for the purpose of paying non-existent debts.
The fraud would have been carried out through the declaration of public utility of state lands and the acquisition of properties and the signing of fraudulent contracts.
Also, through bribes to contractors to “illegally finance the internal political campaign of the PLD for the benefit of Gonzalo Castillo,” who is one of the main defendants, along with former ministers Donald Guerrero and José Ramón Peralta.
The other defendants did not participate in the process of approving the agreements, since they were rejected by the court.
