Supreme Court president Jorge Subero Isa has come out in defense of President Hipolito Mejia’s decision to override the Central Bank and District Attorney’s arrest warrants for the accused in the Bancredito fraud case. According to the chief justice, the President was acting legitimately and within his powers in ordering that District Attorney Maximo Aristy Caraballo suspend the proceedings against Manuel Arturo Pellerano Pena and Juan Felipe Mendoza, accused by the Central Bank of banking fraud. “It does not represent an infringement of justice, because the public ministry is a direct dependency of the executive power (the President), a subordinate of the President and must do what the President says.” Had the President intervened after a judge had been appointed to the case, it would have been a different matter, explained Subero Isa.