A National District Appeal court has confirmed preventive custody for Air Force Colonel Carlos Piccini Núñez, implicated in the case of the bribes paid by the Brazilian company Embraer for the purchase of eight Super Tucano aircraft. The airplanes were purchased to police Dominican skies to reduce drug trafficking.
Piccini, who has now been in jail for 27 months, alleges his time in jail has been too long, given that the Penal Process Code allows for a maximum preventive custody in jail prior to any conviction of 18 months. However the court said that the reasons for the preventive custody had not been changed and remanded him once again to remain in Najayo men’s jail.
He has been in preventive custody since August 2016, being the only one of the accused to be given those coercive measures. Also charged are the ex-Minister of the Air Force, Pedro Rafael Peña Antonio and businessmen Daniel Aquino Méndez and his son Daniel Aquino Hernández.
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28 November 2018
