The lawyer of Hugo Berasthe former director of the former executive director of the National Institute of Transit and Land Transportation (Intrant) that is found arrested for an alleged act of corruption against the State, affirmed this Friday that his client must respond to the facts of which he is accused in freedom, because he has financial resources and family roots in the country.
“If we apply the fundamental assumptions of a measure of coercionwhat would be imposed is a pure and simple freedom of the Lord Hugo Beras and that he faces trial in freedom,” said lawyer Luis Rivas as he left the District Attorney’s Officewhere his client is located.
He deplored the way in which the Public Ministryindicating that not even the accusatory file and that the only thing that has happened is an arrest warrant, which had not been notified to Beras.
“When we analyze the other element, which is the probability that he has committed the factsthere is definitely no possibility that he committed the facts that are attributed to him,” said the jurist.
Likewise, he said that it is an unpleasant moment for the familydue to the way in which he was detained, while stating that Hugo Beras will show the country that he “is a serious and innocent man.”
Until this Friday morning, Hugo Beras was kept under arrest in District Attorney’s Office of Ciudad Nueva awaiting knowledge of the request for measure of coercion against him.
In addition to Hugo Berassix other people are detained. The group is accused of constituting “a network of corruption and organized crime dedicated to embezzlement, fraud against the State, counterfeiting, coalition of officials, smuggling, illicit trade, sabotage and terrorism against critical infrastructure,” through high technology and theft. of identity.
