The process once morest the former Minister of Communications, Alejandro Sinibaldi, for the Construction and Corruption case is in the intermediate stage, where the Public Ministry (MP) and the Attorney General’s Office (PGN) requested that the former official of the government of Otto Pérez Molina be sent to trial for four crimes.
Last Wednesday, the intermediate stage of the criminal proceedings once morest Sinibaldi began in the High Risk Court D, in which he is accused of having joined a structure that supposedly made illegal collections and payments.
Along with Sinibaldi, more than a dozen people were also linked and due to the size of the investigations, the process was divided into two phases.
Judge Abelina Cruz must decide at this stage whether or not to send the former Minister of Communications to trial.
Therefore, this Thursday, April 18, the MP and the PGN requested to the High Risk Court D that Sinibaldi be sent to trial for the crimes of illicit association, passive bribery on a continuous basis, electoral financing not registered on a continuous basis and money laundering. money or other assets on an ongoing basis.
He appealed once morest former assistant
Cruz Toscano issued preventive detention on March 12 once morest Aneliese Mercedes Herrera Monterroso, Sinibaldi’s former assistant in the Construction and Corruption case.
The judge’s resolution was based on the argument of flight risk and criminal proceedings will continue for the crimes of illicit association and laundering of money or other assets.
The resolution was known during the hearing to review coercive measures, this in compliance with what was ordered by the Appeals Chamber that granted Sinibaldi’s request that the effective collaboration agreement of three people involved in the case be revoked.
Juan Arturo Jegerlehner Morales, Carlos Francisco Goyzueta Valladares and Aneliese Mercedes Herrera Monterroso were effective collaborators and through an appeal presented by Alejandro Sinibaldi, the court accepted it and a Chamber granted the request.
At the hearing on March 12, Judge Abelina Cruz decided to send Herrera Monterroso to preventive detention following accepting the arguments of the Public Ministry and the Attorney General’s Office who alleged danger of flight and obstruction of the investigation.
At the beginning of the hearing, the accused argued that she did not agree to be defended by a lawyer from the Public Criminal Defense, because she did not know the case file.
Given this, the judge indicated that she had given herself the reasonable time for her to find a trusted lawyer, something she did not comply with.
Declared in rebellion
Judge Cruz Toscano declared rebellion and issued an arrest warrant once morest Carlos Francisco Goyzueta Valladares because he did not appear at the hearing without indicating reasons for his absence.
He added that Juan Arturo Jegerlehner Morales will continue the criminal process through the special procedure for accepting charges.
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