The judge Altagracia Ramirez de la Cruzof the Fourth Court of Instruction of the National District, decided this Tuesday to give a extension from three months to Public ministry to conclude the investigation against the ex-prosecutor Jean-Alain Rodríguez and the other defendants in the Medusa case, whom held in pretrial detention. The Public ministry He asked for four months.
The three months count from March 8, 2022 and the full reading of the decision will be given by the Court on April 22.
The Public ministry requested the extension to advance with the interrogation of dozens of witnesses. He argued that the preventive detention of the defendants could not be varied because they had incurred in “intimidation” of witnesses.
The judge said that after the deadline, there will be a control hearing, which she set for June 9, 2022, at 10:00 a.m.
The former prosecutor’s defense declared that he will wait for the full reading of the decision to analyze how he will proceed.
The file of jellyfish case points out that the defendants allegedly were part of a criminal network of corruption that allegedly operated from the Attorney General’s Office and that allegedly defrauded the State with more than 6,000 million pesos.
Since last year, the former Attorney General of the Republic, Jean-Alain Rodriguez Sanchez; Former Director of Information Technology and Communication of the Public ministryJavier Alejandro Forteza Ibarra, and the former administrative director, Jonathan Joel Rodríguez Imbert, are serving 18 months in preventive detention at the Najayo Hombres Correction and Rehabilitation Center, in San Cristóbal.
The engineer Jenny Marte Peña, former head of Projects, is under house arrest, as are the former deputy administrative directors, Alfredo Alexander Solano Augusto and Altagracia Guillén Calzado, as well as Rafael Antonio Mercedes Marte, former director of Accounting.
The process is also being carried out against former adviser Miguel José Moya, who was imposed an economic guarantee of one million pesos in the form of a contract with an insurance company, an exit impediment and periodic presentation.
Likewise, it involves Rafael Stefano Canó Sacco, the former chief of staff of former attorney Rodríguez Sánchez, who was arrested in Spain last year and his delivery to the Dominican Republic was requested.
