After considering the allegations of the Public ministryto the ex-prosecutor Jean-Alain Rodríguez and his lawyers, the judge of the Third Investigating Court of the National District, Amauri Martinezdecides whether or not to ratify the measure preventive prison that weighs against the main defendant in the Medusa case for 18 months.
At the hearing this Tuesday, Rodríguez’s defense bar asked the judge to cease the preventive prison and instead impose an impediment to his client from leaving the country, the payment of an economic guarantee in the form of a contract, presentation every 15 days and offer the doctor and communicator Julio Hazim as guarantor so that the ex-prosecutor can continue the judicial process released until the completion of the preliminary hearing.
Instead, the Public Ministry said that lifting the preventive prison to Rodríguez would be rewarding a defendant who has allegedly been obstructing justice.
In fact, the Prosecutor for Persecution, Yeni Berenice Reynoso, said at the hearing that Rodríguez threatens witnesses from prison and offered one million pesos not to testify against him.
In his defense turn before the judge, Jean-Alain Rodríguez denied the statements of the deputy prosecutor and said that no one can prove that he was making threats.
