José Dolores Santana and Wacal Bernabé Méndez Pineda, accused of the octopus casestill remain in the San Cristóbal prison, because the defense of both have not completed the legal procedures to get him out of prison.
These defendants are accused of forming, together with others, an alleged network of administrative corruption, called the Anti-octopus operation.
Dolores Santana and Méndez Pineda, together with Alexis Medina and Fernando Rosa, last Monday Judge Deiby Timoteo Peguero changed the preventive detention measure, which they had been serving since December 2020, to house arrest.
Medina and Rosa completed their exit process and today they were transferred to their respective residences where they will comply with the new coercion measure.
Wacal’s lawyer explained to elCaribe that there is very little left to complete the judicial procedures to get him out of prison, although he estimates that the process will conclude after noon next Monday.
“We completed the entire process after 2:00 in the afternoon today, but there was very little time left for the insurer to certify that everything was in order for both my client Wacal Méndez and José Dolores,” said lawyer Robinson Reyes by telephone. .
José Dolores Santana and Wacal Bernabé Méndez Pineda were set a bail of 20 million pesos each, through a contract with a company dedicated to those purposes, in addition to an exit impediment, the placement of an electronic shackle and arrest. domiciliary.
While Alexis Medina and Fernando Rosa were set a bail of 60 and 30 million pesos, respectively, and the other conditions dictated to the other defendants.
These four defendants will be prevented from leaving the country and must make periodic presentations to the Justice.
Of those accused in Operation Anti-Octopus, only Carlos Montes de Oca is in jail serving preventive detention after being declared in absentia on several occasions. Magalys Medina, another of the accused and sister of the former president
