The District Attorney’s office has ordered an investigation to determine causes of the death of Moises Fernando Marchena Arredondo. Marchena was in jail for alleged fraud and expropriation of the much publicized case of the Bahia de las Aguilas park reserve lands, in coordination with former congressmen and Balaguer administration officers. His request to be released on bail had been recently again rejected by the judiciary. While early press reports speculated he had been assassinated, a Listin Diario newspaper interview with fellow jail inmates and a Hoy newspaper story said that he is more likely to have died from natural causes. He was taken to the medical dispensary of La Victoria suffering from strong abdominal pains. The doctor on service certified that he died from an internal digestive hemorrhage. Marchena had been in jail for 14 months and seven days and was said to be depressed. Reports said he could have died from cirrhosis or from an ulcer.
