During the first weeks of the new PLD administration, there has been no shortage of accusations flying back and forth in the press. Currently, the publicity surrounding former Attorney General Victor Cespedes Martinez, who issued a prison release for his first cousin for purported “humanitarian” reason, has produced a new arrest warrant for the cousin, Roberto Cespedes Martinez. Incumbent Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito revoked the release order of his predecessor, issuing a new order for the arrest of the freed convicted murderer.
Over at the National District’s Fourth Court of Instruction, Judge Alfredo Rios Fabian ordered that father Domingo Espinal be transferred to Najayo Prison, based on charges that he sodomized a young boy.
The defense team of former banker Ramon Baez Figueroa has announced it is preparing a series of accusations against former President Mejia, former Central Bank Governor Jose Lois Malkum, and the recently retired Colonel Pedro Julio “Pepe” Goico, in connection to alleged fraudulent acts perpetrated in various state ministries. Lawyer Vinicio Castillo Seman, the spokesman for the legal team, told Diario Libre that they are studying new evidence concerning the mismanagement of funds. At the same time, the lawyer said he was sorry to see that the new agriculture minister had kept several of the former officers on board, because, as allies of the PPH leader and former Minister Eligio Jaquez, they had access to the archives that contain evidence of frauds committed.
Judge Victor Martinez of the National District’s Second Court of Instruction sent former Immigration Director Miguel Vasquez and Lieutenant Colonel Francisco Bloise Olmeda to a criminal court because he had found “serious, grave, precise proof” that seriously implicate the two men in fraud, falsification of public documents, racketeering and an abuse of trust that prejudiced two businessmen from Singapore and Malaysia. According to the case file, the police officer received US$44,422 from Ng Choon Seng. The former immigration official claims the money was used to deport illegal Chinese.