After paying millionaire bail, former president Otto Pérez Molina leaves prison

2024-01-05 00:21:55

Former president Otto Pérez Molina was released after 8 years and 4 months in prison in the Mariscal Zavala Military Brigade, after canceling a financial bond of Q10,300,000, through which the former official was able to obtain his freedom, despite having He was sentenced to 16 years in prison in December of last year for the La Línea case.

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As it became known, the former president was able to leave after mortgaging a house and a farm that family members gave him. César Calderón, Pérez Molina’s lawyer, told the media that the former official paid Q300,000 in cash in November of last year as a substitute measure in the State Cooptation case.

In the La Línea case, the bond imposed was Q10.4 million, a sum that, according to what they indicated, was not paid with money, but what was done was to guarantee it with real estate that was registered in favor of the Judicial Branch.

MORE THAN EIGHT YEARS AFTER THE RESIGNATION

In 2015, the government of the defunct Patriota Party suffered a setback with the resignation and capture of then-president Otto Pérez Molina and vice president Roxana Baldetti, who are currently facing several lawsuits against them.

Pérez Molina governed from January 14, 2012 until September 3, 2015, when he resigned and subsequently appeared in court to face the accusations that the Public Ministry (MP) made against him for the “La Línea” case. ”, linked to a customs fraud structure.

After that, in June 2016, another process called State Co-optation was added, in which he was implicated in participating in a network that charged illegal commissions to contractors in exchange for project awards.

The crimes for which Pérez Molina was convicted in the La Línea case are Illicit Association and Special Case of Customs Fraud, both crimes with a sentence of 8 years, so the total sentence is 16 years. In addition, he was acquitted of the charge of Unlawful Enrichment.

He was also sentenced for the Cooptation of the State case to 12 years in prison, but these were commutable so in this case he paid a financial bond of Q300 thousand.