TO Javier Alejandro Forteza Ibarraformer director of Information and Communication Technology of the Public Ministry, and Jonathan Rodriguez Imbertformer administrative director of that body during the management of the former attorney general jean alain rodriguezthey will be released from the Najayo-Hombre prison after 19 months with this measure of coercion.
Judge Amauri Martínez, of the Third Investigating Court of the National District, The pretrial detention was varied for both due to house arrest, economic guarantees and impediment to leave the country.
A bond of 20 million pesos was imposed on Forteza Ibarra and 5 million pesos by Rodríguez Imbert through insurance companies.
The two former officials of the Public Ministry were the only ones who were in prison after the coercion of the former administrative deputy director of the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), Alfredo Alexander Solano Augusto, was also modified on the 1st of this month.
Solano Augusto was also imposed house arrest and ten million pesos payable under the contract modality through an insurance company.
Likewise, on January 17, the same thing was done with former Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez, with the only difference that he must use electronic shackles, in addition to serving house arrest.
The defendants in the supposed network baptized as jellyfish amount to a total of 41 natural persons, who are attributed to be part of an association of criminals to embezzle the Dominican State with more than 6,000 million pesos in the plan to modernize the prison system, bribes and overvaluation of works.
Judge’s arguments
Judge Martínez ordered the variation of the measure to the accused Rodríguez Imbert, “since there was no opposition to the request for variation by the Public Ministry or the complainant representing the Dominican State.”
According to a press release from the Judiciary, Martínez maintained: “the conclusions drawn in the hearing are the ones that bind the courts in justice.”
As for Javier Forteza, he said that this defendant had already “served more than the 18 months provided by the Code of Criminal Procedure as the maximum period of preventive detention, establishing that within the legal framework provided by the legislator in the case analyzed, the cessation operated. of preventive detention, being consistent with previous precedents”.
Judge Martínez also emphasized that the variation of the measure of coercion “does not imply a determination as to the guilt or innocence of the defendant (…)since in the hearing held this Wednesday neither evidence nor the accusation of the Public Ministry was being discussed.
The preliminary trial hearing of the more than 60 defendants, including natural and legal persons, It is scheduled for Friday, February 24.
