After spending three years in prison, Rosario Robles Berlanga was released from prison Santa Martha Acatitla by order of a federal judge who granted him provisional release.
Judge Ganther Alejando Villar Ceballos, during a hearing held today in the courts of the South Reclusorio of Mexico City, ordered the change of precautionary measure of the former head of the Sedesol and the Sedatualthough the criminal proceedings against him will continue to be released for the alleged crime of improper exercise of public service in the case of the Master swindler.
The Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) confirmed that the judicial resolution has already been fulfilled, that is, Rosario Oaks he is already free.
On August 17, Robles presented before the General Prosecutor of the Republic a request for change of precautionary measuresin order to continue his trial in freedom with the imposition of the restrictions that the law indicates for these cases, because of the various illnesses that afflict him and because of his age.
“This Institution assessed the state of health of this person and the security measures that guarantee his presence in the process, for which he requested the Control Judge’s consent to modify the precautionary measure of justified preventive detention,” the FGR reported.
The Control Judge decided to replace the justified pre-trial detention and impose precautionary measures prohibiting leaving the country without authorization, handing over their passport to the FGR and periodically appearing before the judge, in order to comply with the order of the jurisdictional authority.
On August 13, 2019, at an initial hearing, to which she appeared voluntarily, the former head of the Ministry of Social Development (Sedesol) and the Secretariat of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development (Sedatu) said before Judge Felipe de Jesús Delgadillo Padierna: “At no time did I fail to give the notices corresponding to my duties as Secretary of State. He had (communication) with the head of the federal Executive, Mr. Enrique Peña Nieto, normally first-hand in direct cabinet meetings (and) through the direct line to the office of the Presidency.” On that date, the federal judge who imposed preventive detention while the FGR concluded the investigation folder against him for the alleged affectation to the treasury for 5,075 million pesos.
investigations of the Superior Audit of the Federation (ASF) revealed 27 irregular agreements entered into by Sedesol and Sedatu with public universities, for an amount of 5,075 million pesos, for the acquisition of services whose execution could not be verified, a case known as the Master Fraud.
On March 30 of this year, Rosario Oaks he released a letter in which he accused President Andrés Manuel López Obrador; the Attorney General of the Republic, Alejandro Gertz Manero, and the former legal adviser to the Presidency, Julio Scherer, of colluding to imprison her, in order to reach “big fish.”
In her own handwriting, the former secretary stated: “I received reports that in 2019 prior to my arrest, my situation was discussed in a conversation between you, the Attorney General and the Legal Counsel. The prosecutor convinced them that the only way to get to bigger fish was to put pressure on me in jail. That’s where my fate was decided. A whole machine was assembled, including the judge/nephew with the surname Padierna to trap me in these walls. I became a hostage. In addition to being the only one (by the way, a woman) deprived of her liberty due to the alleged triangulation of resources to the universities (which has not been proven so far, on the contrary, this hypothesis has suffered serious setbacks in the administrative court)” .
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