A Prosecutor assigned to the National Unit against Narcotics and Maritime Interdiction (Unaim) denied the revocation of a precautionary measure related to Congressman Juan Carlos Martínez Sinisterra.
Martinez Sinisterra requested the revocation considering that the witnesses’ statements against him had no probative value, because in his feeling, judicial police has no the authority to conduct statements.
He also affirms that Armando Lugo and Luis Becerra testimonies don’t deserve credibility, because everything is part of a plot by Lugo against him.
Resolving the petition, the Prosecutor in the case said the law empowers him to commissioning judicial police tasks to officials in order to examine evidence and the indication that Lugo is the brains that motivate other witnesses to testify against Martínez Sinisterra, is ” a simply defensive conjecture that does not have concern”.
In the decision, the Prosecutor added that, based on jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of Justice, Lugo may not be disqualified as a witness by the fact of having been convicted on extortion charge. “In a spirit of constructive criticism, the divisibility of the testimony, at the moment, allowed to come to a conclusion that what it was said by Lugo, it has not lost the quality of evidentiary value attributed when his legal status has been resolved.”
For these reasons, the Prosecutor in the case denied the revocation of the Precautionary measure concerning former Congressman Juan Carlos Martínez Sinisterra, who is prosecuted for crimes linked to drug trafficking