Former President Danilo Medina’s Minister of Hacienda Donald Guerrero and Administrative Minister José Ramón Peralta will remain in Najayo Jail at least most of the summer. Their case is known as the Squid (Calamar) Case. The review of their pre-trial measures was just postponed for 1 September 2023. The former ministers seek to be allowed to wait out the trial under domiciliary arrest.
The defense of José Ramón Peralta insists that Peralta should not have been included in the Calamar corruption case.
Most of the former Medina administration officers accused of corruption were sent to domiciliary arrest after 18 months in jail.
The former ministers Donald Guerrero and José Ramón Peralta, main defendants in Operation Calamar, are serving 18 months of preventive imprisonment in the Najayo Jail in San Cristóbal for their ties to the administrative corruption network operating during the presidency of Danilo Medina. The jail order dates back to April 2023.
Read more in Spanish:
N Digital
5 July 2023