2023-08-26 07:22:14
A federal judge granted the former Governor of Tamaulipas, Eugenio Hernandez Floresthe benefit of releasing his extradition process to the United States, which is why he is expected to leave the Tenango del Valle prison in the State of Mexico in the next few hours, his defense reported.
Genaro Antonio Valerio Pinillos, First District Judge in Tamaulipas, modified the suspension outright in the amparo that the former President filed against the extradition and ordered a hearing to modify the precautionary measure of justified preventive detention.
Instead, the judge imposed the payment of a guarantee of 5 million pesos, the delivery of his passport, the prohibition to leave the country and his biweekly presentation in the Precautionary Measures Unit, confirmed his defense.
Hernández’s release is expected to take place this weekend, unless a new accusation is filed against him at the last minute, because in the other common law processes that he has underway, for crimes of illicit enrichment and money laundering, the investigating judges They had already granted him provisional freedom some time ago.
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“Eugenio Hernández Flores will be released today by order of a federal judge and will be able to continue his process in freedom, as stipulated by the constitution and the laws,” his lawyer Javier López said in a statement.
“After having been unduly confined, Eugenio Hernández will be able, from the freedom that should never have been affected, to process pending legal issues,” said his lawyer.
It is not common for high-profile cases to be granted provisional release in an extradition trial, even though the crimes charged are not ex officio pretrial detention under Mexican law.
Unofficially it was reported that the judge imposed as precautionary measures the payment of a guarantee, the delivery of the passport, the prohibition to leave the country and his periodic presentation to sign the book of defendants.
Although Hernández has other common law processes underway for crimes of illicit enrichment and money laundering, the investigating judges had long ago granted him provisional freedom in those matters.
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The Attorney General’s Office yesterday reproached federal judge Genaro Antonio Valerio Pinillos for having released Hernández and described his ruling as “inadmissible” because it puts the extraditable person at serious risk of flight.
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In a statement released, the FGR accused both the judge and the former state president himself of delaying the extradition process.
“The trial has been extended due to the delays caused by the extraditable and complainant himself in the amparo, and due to delays by the judge himself, who is now using them in his favor,” he accused.
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The Federal District Court for the Southern District of Texas claims him for the alleged crimes of money laundering, bank fraud and unlicensed operations of a money transfer business.
Hernández was arrested on October 6, 2017 in Ciudad Victoria for the crimes of embezzlement and operations with resources of illicit origin, after being accused of allegedly buying a piece of land with two 1,600-hectare properties in the Municipality of Altamira, through prestambres and undervalued price.
At the end of November 2018, he was transferred to the Tenango del Valle prison, State of Mexico, where he was imprisoned in recent years.
(With information from Reforma)
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