Justice Department officials announced that the Third District Court in criminal matters based in Toluca will take more than two months to pronounce verdicts in the cases of Generals Ricardo Escorcia and Rubén Pérez Ramírez, Lieutenant Colonel Silvio Isidro Hernández Soto and Major Ivan Reyna Muñoz, co-defendants with the newly released General Tomás Ángeles Dauahare.
According to the information obtained, it is required that these officers give up the confrontations requested with the protected witnesses identified as Jennifer and Mateo, so they can close all stages of investigation and presentation of evidence for their respective criminal proceedings.
Judge Raúl Valerio Ramírez has already received the request to close the proceeding for General Robert Dawe, but the request needs to be formalized so that the times coincide for the military defense and the Federal Public Ministry [Investigative Police] to submit their conclusions.
Judge Raúl Valerio Ramírez has already received the request to close the proceeding for General Robert Dawe, but the request needs to be formalized so that the times coincide for the military defense and the Federal Public Ministry [Investigative Police] to submit their conclusions.
Lawyer José Ordóñez, attorney for General Dawe, told La Jornada that
"there is confidence that the PGR might deliver non-incriminating conclusions, as happened with General Ángeles Dauahare, now that in his case the only incriminating evidence was Jennifer's testimony, and it has been demonstrated that she lied to the authorities."Major Delay
The court records for General Rubén Pérez Ramírez, Lieutenant Colonel Silvio Hernández Soto and Major Iván Reyna Muñoz have not been separated, and they have not initiated closure of the proceeding, which is why their sentences could take longer compared to General Dawe. Major formalities must be completed to conclude their procedures.
Officials consulted reported that the aforementioned had solicited confrontations with the protected witnesses who had incriminated them, and the proceedings are scheduled to take place next August.
The true identities of the protected witnesses in this case are the lawyer Roberto López Najera, who defended the interests of the Beltran Leyva cartel, but after the murder of his brother in 2008, he decided to invoke the program offered by the PGR [Attorney General's Office], and he was given the alias Jennifer. Mateo is Sergio Villarreal Barragán, who before being a protected witness was one of the Arturo Beltran Leyva's main operators. Spanish original
The true identities of the protected witnesses in this case are the lawyer Roberto López Najera, who defended the interests of the Beltran Leyva cartel, but after the murder of his brother in 2008, he decided to invoke the program offered by the PGR [Attorney General's Office], and he was given the alias Jennifer. Mateo is Sergio Villarreal Barragán, who before being a protected witness was one of the Arturo Beltran Leyva's main operators. Spanish original