An Appeals Chamber revoked the conditional freedom that had been granted to journalist Jose Rubén Zamora Marroquín in one of many circumstances in opposition to him.
Rafael Curruchiche, head of the Particular Prosecutor’s Workplace in opposition to Impunity (Feci), in a video revealed by the Public Ministry (MP), reported on the notification of the Second Courtroom of Appeals of the Legal Department in regards to the revocation of substitute measures that benefited the journalist Zamora within the Blackmail Impunity and Cash Laundering Case.
The prosecutor added that Zamora on this case is accused of the crime of laundering cash or different belongings.
He added that what was resolved is after the Ninth Courtroom of Legal Sentencing on the time “benefited Zamora Marroquín with substitute measures, a state of affairs that was opportunely challenged by Le Feci.”
Regardless of the profit it had Zamora nonetheless couldn’t receive his freedomthen face one other case for which it’s best to search to acquire a comparable profit.
Simply final Could 15, the Ninth Sentencing Courtroom determined to grant substitute measures in favor of journalist Jose Rubén Zamora, as a result of MP’s allegations in a case of alleged cash laundering.
On that event, the presiding decide of the Courtroom, Verónica Ruiz, indicated that Zamora might take pleasure in home arrest, underneath sure situations corresponding to prohibition of leaving the nation, periodically signing an attendance ebook within the MP and will be unable to speak with these concerned within the case. .
The measure can be efficient after the cost of a monetary bond of Q30 thousand, in keeping with the president of the Courtroom.
Zamora Marroquín was arrested on July 29, 2022 on accusations of cash laundering, simply 5 days after strongly criticizing some officers for corruption. The journalist was arrested in an operation by the Public Ministry (MP), whose management is sanctioned by the US.
About Zamora Marroquín there are not less than three judicial processes completely different investigated by the MP, together with one for cash laundering the place he was sentenced to 6 years in jail and later acquitted attributable to irregularities within the trial.
The 67-year-old journalist based and presided over the morning newspaper ElPeriódico from 1996 to 2022, with greater than a thousand studies of presidency corruption documented in its pages, together with the scandals that led to the autumn of the Authorities of former President Otto Pérez Molina (2012- 2015).
Decision of the Chamber
Within the case of Blackmail Impunity and Cash Laundering, the Chamber in its decision signifies that it “declares admissibility of the appeals” filed by the MP by the fiscal agent Leonor Eugenia Morales Lazo and the supporting plaintiff Ricardo Méndez Ruiz “with the help” of lawyer Raúl Falla, each in opposition to the decision issued by the Ninth Legal Sentencing Courtroom in favor of the defendant Jose Rubén Zamora Marroquin.
It provides: “Consequently, the order of substitute measures issued by the Ninth Courtroom of Legal Sentencing, Narcoactivity and Crimes in opposition to the Setting of Guatemala in favor of the defendant is revoked in its entirety.”
The aforementioned Courtroom should perform the pertinent steps to adjust to what was ordered, for which it should concern a corresponding letter to the overall director of the Penitentiary System indicating that stated order of substitute measures has been left with out authorized results as a result of it has been revoked.
The above have to be carried out inside a interval of three days upon receipt of the execution of this ruling and the Courtroom have to be knowledgeable of compliance.
The measure had been granted to the 67-year-old journalist whereas he awaits a repeat trial in opposition to him for alleged cash laundering.
Conviction annulled
On October 13, 2023, a Guatemalan Appeals chamber annulled the conviction in opposition to journalist Jose Rubén Zamora Marroquín and ordered a repeat of the judicial course of by which he was discovered responsible of cash laundering.
For nearly 700 days, Zamora Marroquín has remained in jail in a jail inside a army brigade within the north of Guatemala Metropolis and nonetheless has three pending felony proceedings in opposition to him to be resolved.
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