Lawyer Jonathan Villatoro confirmed that since final Monday, June 24, former Minister of Communications José Luis Benito was launched from jail after a Chamber of Amparos of the Supreme Court docket of Justice accepted a provisional amparo filed by the jurist within the launch case. from Chimaltenango
Villatoro stated that the enchantment was filed for 2 causes. The primary is that the occasions that the previous minister is accused of have been on account of a “political tone” as he was in command of the Communications portfolio. The second argument raised is said to the attainable sentence he may obtain and the time he has spent in preventive detention.
“The Constitutional Court docket acknowledged on a number of events that that is unconstitutional, it comes from the precept of presumption of innocence,” Villatoro acknowledged.
He added: “We protected ourselves as it’s in opposition to a jurisdictional chamber, the Amparo Chamber of the Supreme Court docket of Justice about eight months later resolved the safety for us.”
The lawyer defined that, when the provisional safety was granted, they have been notified that the previous minister as soon as once more enjoys different measures for the Chimaltenango case.
“I instantly went to the jurisdictional physique that the Chamber had additionally notified concerning the safety and the measures have been carried out. He already enjoys his freedom,” he acknowledged.
José Luis Benito is accused of acts of corruption when the Chimaltenango bypass was constructed, a construction that’s at present topic to fixed collapses. Benito was in command of that portfolio throughout the federal government of Jimmy Morales.
On this method, Benito obtains conditional launch, he’s nonetheless ready for a date to be scheduled to proceed with the event of the intermediate stage listening to when will probably be identified whether or not he should face trial or not on this case.
The Penitentiary System was consulted about Benito’s case and confirmed that by order of the First Legal Court docket of First Occasion, the previous official was launched on June 24 at night time.
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On Might 28, it was reported that the Second Chamber of the Court docket of Appeals declared the enchantment introduced by the Legal professional Basic’s Workplace admissible and the acceptance of costs listening to should be repeated the place the previous Minister of Communications, José Luis Benito, is accused. , for the case of the Q122 million present in suitcases inside a house in Antigua Guatemala, Sacatepéquez.
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