The lawyers of alexis medinabrother of former president Danilo Medina, and those of former official Ferdinand Rosewho meet preventive prison because of his connection with the octopus casethis Monday they were confident that a judge will vary the measure of coercion for their clients.
The defense’s expectations are due to the fact that Judge Deiby Timoteo Peguero, of the Seventh Investigating Court of the National District, is today hearing the compulsory review of the coercive measure of these defendants.
For Carlos Salcedo, Alexis’ lawyer, the conditions are not right for the accused to continue serving preventive detention at the Najayo-Men Correction and Rehabilitation Center.
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He considered that Alexis is not treated the same as the other defendants, since only he and three other defendants of the 27 are in prison. “Alexis cannot be discriminated against,” he said when asked by journalists.
Salcedo also said that the coercive measures are temporary and can be several at any time depending on the situation, and that now the circumstances have changed since the Public Ministry filed a formal accusation.
Likewise, the lawyer José Miguel Minier, of the defense of Fernando Rosa, former president of the Patrimonial Fund of the Reformed Companies (Fonper), assured that they are “totally optimistic and sure”, that the judge will order Najayo’s departure from his client, when considering the measure of coercion it no longer has reason to be.
He explained that they presented to the magistrate Peguero new charges and budgets for the variation of preventive detention.
“But the most important thing is that in eight days Fernando Rosa will serve 15 months in prison and it turns out that, according to the Inter-American Court, said measure in terms of proportionality, as established by the Constitution of the Republic, is arbitrary and legal,” he specified. be covered by the press.
“In this sense, there is no reason to be, if the request for a coercive measure made by the Public Ministry on November 30, 2019, were for three conditions, danger of escape, obstruction of justice, there is seriousness, and when presenting an accusation the December 17, that has no purpose, it no longer has a function of being,” he added.
This Monday morning during a hearing, Judge Deiby Timoteo Peguero heard the arguments of the lawyers of Alexis Medina and Fernando Rosa, as well as those of the defense of the accused Wacal Méndez Pineda and José Dolores Santana, who are also serving preventive detention in Najayo.
In addition, the judge heard the reply of the Public Ministry. At 3 in the afternoon the hearing continues with the presentation of the attorneys for the State and for the Edes, who are civil plaintiffs in this corruption case.
On the other hand, the lawyers of Aquiles Christopher, another of the defendants in the Octopus case who is under house arrest, asked the magistrate through a written request to vary the measure of coercion due to periodic presentation. This request will be heard by Judge Peguero at another hearing.
Christopher’s lawyers have said that there are new circumstances that justify the variation of the measure of coercion, being that they cited that there is no danger of flight, since he has been under house arrest since September of last year without surveillance and without shackles and has been presented to all the hearings, and that, in addition, the investigation has been completed with the presentation of the formal accusation.
