The Fourth Collegiate Court of the National District varied the measure of coercionhouse arrest for periodic presentation and impediment to leaving the country to the former administrative director of the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic (PGR) Jonathan Joel Rodríguez Imbertwho is one of the main defendants in the Operation Medusa corruption case.
In addition to appearing periodically before the Public Ministry on the 14th of each month, Rodríguez Imbert must also pay a bond of 5 million pesos.
It is recalled that in the preliminary stage of the case, the accused admitted to paying bribes to contractors of the prison humanization plan, but assured that he did so on the instructions of former attorney Jean Alain Rodríguez and former PGR Chief of Staff Rafael Canó Sacco.
The Fourth Collegiate Court of the National District justified the variation of the measure of coercion to Rodríguez Imbert by pointing out that the circumstances have changed and that the accused has served a total of 37 months between house arrest and preventive detention, which, according to his lawyer, Ingrid Hidalgo, can be considered an anticipated sentence.
“Jonathan has always maintained a positive defense, without reaching any agreement with the Public Ministry,” commented his lawyer, who stressed that the former director has assumed his responsibility for the events.
Upon admitting his guilt, before being sent to trial, Rodríguez Imbert said that the former attorney general and Canó “instructed him” to get together with the contractors and food companies that supplied the prisons and that won the tenders irregularly, to “collect the agreed percentage of the works and food and then deliver them to them “either in their offices or homes.”
