The leader and the other seven officials, arrested and imprisoned on Monday, September 23, will be able to return to their positions this Tuesday, resolved the Treasury judge who presided over the process against the so-called Barrenador Case, after a week of investigations and judicial hearings, they commented. informative.
Each of the accused will receive the sentence, although the aforementioned judicial authority refrained from specifying the period in which it will definitively resolve the judicial case.
“The judge indicated, regarding the suspension of the charges requested by the Prosecutor’s Office, that as long as he did not issue a resolution, all these people had no impediment to continue in office,” declared the defense lawyer, Rodrigo Araya.
The case against the eight defendants began on Monday when the Deputy Prosecutor’s Office for Probity, Transparency and Anti-Corruption carried out 28 raids, following a complaint of contracts for a million-dollar overprice for the awarding of health resources administered by the CCSS to five cooperatives.
The authorities arrested and took Esquivel and the other defendants that day to a prison in the capital’s municipality of Goicoechea, according to reports from the Teletica channel.
The group of eight detainees led by Esquivel faced charges of alleged influence peddling and damages against the Public Treasury associated with 138 basic comprehensive health care equipment, transferred to the aforementioned entities among other resources.
Those investigated were arrested by the Judicial Police, headed by the Deputy Prosecutor’s Office for Probity, Transparency and Anti-Corruption, the same source specified.
The Police intervened at Esquivel’s residence, before he voluntarily presented himself to a delegation from said body, which was investigating the eight executives arrested two months ago, together with the Public Ministry, according to the director of the Judicial Investigation Agency, Rándall Zúñiga. .
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