{"id":161541,"date":"2021-07-15T07:58:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T11:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=161541"},"modified":"2021-07-15T11:18:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T15:18:04","slug":"jean-alain-rodriguez-sent-to-najayo-spotlight-on-bananas-in-safebox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/07\/15\/jean-alain-rodriguez-sent-to-najayo-spotlight-on-bananas-in-safebox\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean Alain Rodr\u00edguez sent to Najayo; spotlight on bananas in safebox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Jean-Alain-Rodriguez-Prision-Preventiva-Diario-Libre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-161630\" width=\"600\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Jean-Alain-Rodriguez-Prision-Preventiva-Diario-Libre.jpg 546w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Jean-Alain-Rodriguez-Prision-Preventiva-Diario-Libre-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Attorney General Jean Alain Rodr\u00edguez was sent to Najayo Jail during the early morning of 14 July 2021. The day before, he was sentenced to serve 18 months of pretrial custody in the San Crist\u00f3bal jail. The news became the trending topic for the day. People also referred to the case of the &#8220;plantains&#8221; found in a safe box that prosecutors opened as they sought evidence in the Medusa Operation, as the case against Rodr\u00edguez and accomplices has been named by the anti-administrative corruption prosecutors.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prosecutors charge Rodriguez and accomplices of alleged corruption, fraud and erasing of would be incriminating evidence when he was attorney general from 2016 to 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another trending topic on social media was about plantains supposedly found in a safe opened by the anti-corruption prosecutors in their search for incriminating evidence. It is now known that plastic bananas were left in the safe opened by the anti-corruption prosecutors. Diario Libre reports that the incident served as &#8220;a last straw&#8221; and did not work in favor of Rodr\u00edguez&#8217;s defense that sought domiciliary arrest for their client. Rodr\u00edguez&#8217;s defense has announced they will appeal the pretrial custody order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/platanos-en-la-caja-fuerte-de-jean-alain-rodriguez-le-pusieron-la-tapa-al-pomo-dice-abogado-pancho-alvarez-KA27501931\">Diario Libre<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/defensa-de-jean-alain-apelara-coercion-desproporcionada\/\">Hoy<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 July 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Attorney General Jean Alain Rodr\u00edguez was sent to Najayo Jail during the early morning of 14 July 2021. The day before, he was sentenced to serve 18 months of pretrial custody in the San Crist\u00f3bal jail. The news became the trending topic for the day. People also referred to the case of the &#8220;plantains&#8221; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/07\/15\/jean-alain-rodriguez-sent-to-najayo-spotlight-on-bananas-in-safebox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161632,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161541\/revisions\/161632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}