SANTO DOMINGO.- Judge Esmirna Gisselle Méndez, of the First Collegiate Court of the National District, changed this Tuesday the coercive measure imposed on Major General Adán Cáceres Silvestre, and in that sense ordered that house arrest be lifted and that the electronic bracelet be removed from the main defendant in the corruption case called Coral.
The judge accepted the request of the defense of the former security chief of former President Danilo Medina, however decided to maintain the financial guarantee and the prohibition of departure as a coercive measure.
Cristian Martínez, Cáceres’ defense attorney, said that today what should have been done a long time ago was done, which was to end a situation that had been prolonged in an “exaggerated” manner.
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“As of today, he has been in preventive detention for three years, in the face of his position where the Public Prosecutor’s Office has not presented a single piece of evidence of anything; not one proof that he is going to flee, nor of any risk. A person who has behaved appropriately throughout this process, as is required of an accused,” said Martínez.
At the beginning of the process, the Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of the National District imposed 18 months of preventive detention, which the accused served at the Najayo Men’s Correction and Rehabilitation Center in San Cristóbal.
Cáceres Sivestre, former head of the Presidential Security Corps (Cusep), is accused of leading the corruption network that defrauded the State of more than 4.5 billion.
