Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Yesterday, a judge issued a formal prosecution and protective detention order against Marco Bográn and Alex Moraes, who were involved in the irregular purchase of seven mobile hospitals because of risk of leakage.
The legal defense of the former Honduras Strategic Investment officials (Invest-H) said they will be appealing in the coming days.
Bográn, former director of Invest-H y Moraes, Former Invest-H Administrator, they are charged with two crimes of fraud and two of violating the duties of the officials after they determined they had an inordinate participation in the acquisition of seven mobile hospitals, which accounted for L1.174 million.
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“We are going to use all defenses that the judge has not taken into account,” the lawyer announced Marco Bográn, Marco Tulio Castro.
In yesterday morning’s judicial resolution, the judge stated that the suspects had been sentenced to protective custody because of the risk of escape.
“That is not true at all. If they had wanted to escape, they would have done so from the first moment, what happens is that the judge was of the opinion that both have the means to escape; but that is not their intention”, Castro said.
To issue the formal charge with the preemptive detention order, Judge Vera Barahona concluded that the defendants violated state treaty law regarding warranties and the purchase process.
The first hearing of the officials began on Saturday, April 10, and ended Wednesday.
The prosecution presented 50 pieces of evidence, compared to six pieces of evidence from the defendants’ personal defense.
According to the MEP, it was argued at the hearing as a proven fact that “the purchase has been made outside the legal framework, according to the contrast between delivery and suppliers, without quality guarantees, without guarantee of compliance, without preservation of delivery. , a fixed installation period, without observing the advance payment guarantee and without the prior consent of the Invest-H Board of Directors ”.
Bail
The defense attorneys admitted that they offered a mortgage bond of more than eight million lempiras at the first hearing to obtain measures other than imprisonment.
However, the robed Barahona did not admit it and previously ordered the ex-officials to be sent to a prison in the US 1st Infantry Battalion in the capital.