Court orders to cease preventive detention of Adán Cáceres
The judge of the Sixth Investigative Court of the National District, Yanibet Rivas, varied the measure of coercion of preventive detention to Major General Adán Cáceres Silvestre, former head of the Presidential Security Corps; Colonel Rafael Núñez de Aza, Rossy Guzmán (the Pastor) and her son Tanner Flete.
The judge imposed an economic guarantee of 100 million pesos on the two soldiers, through an insurance company, while on her mother and her son, 50 million pesos through the same modality.
The four were ordered new measures of coercion, consisting of house arrest, impediment to exit and the placement of electronic shackles.
At the end of the hearing, both the Public Ministry and the defense lawyers were dissatisfied with Judge Rivas’s decision.
For the defense lawyers, it is impossible for their clients to be able to pay the economic guarantee for the high amount that they must seek, since they say that they are not receiving income and the few savings they may have are friezed by the Public Ministry itself.
In the case of Adán Cáceres and Núñez de Aza, the amount was 100 million, they must pay 10 million pesos to be released from prison, while Pastor Rossy and her son will have to deposit five million pesos each one. This without adding the electronic shackles, which the initial cost is 1,500 dollars (82,000 pesos at the current rate).
In the opinion of Wilson Camacho, with the decision “what the court wants is that the Public Ministry does not carry out extensive investigations.”
He said that the measure was not consistent with the complexity of the case that the judge established in the sentencing device and complained that the magistrate blamed them for the postponements that have been made and that have not allowed the progress of the process.
José Alberto Ortiz, a State attorney, also said that Adán Cáceres and Núñez de Aza, because they are senior active officers, could “endanger the integrity” and the testimony of 300 witnesses in the process.
Camacho and Ortiz argue that the deadlines must be reasonable for each case as, according to what they affirm, some rulings have already established and not a mathematical question.
The group is charged with criminal association, fraud against the Dominican State, coalition of officials, falsification of public documents, money laundering from acts of corruption, and illegal carrying and possession of firearms.
According to the Public Ministry, the alleged criminal network disarticulated with Operation Coral carried out his criminal activities in Cusep and Cestur, mainly, with the swelling of the payroll. During the investigations, the Public Ministry discovered that Colonel Rafael Núñez de Aza allegedly also served as financial director of the National Council for Children and Adolescents (Conani), despite the fact that he did not appear in the public records.
The Public Ministry said that it has established, in the course of the judicial process, that they carried out fraudulent operations to acquire a large amount of personal and real estate, luxury vehicles and properties in different parts of the Dominican Republic.