Former NL Governor Jaime Rodríguez Calderón, the “Bronco”

A state judge granted amparo to former governor of Nuevo León, Jaime Rodríguez Calderón, the 'Bronco', who was arrested on Tuesday, March 15, accused of diversion of public funds for his 2018 presidential campaign, and held in Prison #2 in the municipality of Apodaca.

The servant of the First District Court in criminal matters granted the former state president a provisional suspension of amparo, after the defense of the 'Bronco' promoted that appeal after his arrest.

The Mexican newspaper Milenio has announced that Rodríguez Calderón will have its first hearing this Wednesday, March 16.

The Bronco was arrested around noon on Tuesday, March 15, by elements of the State Prosecutor's Office for Electoral Crimes and subsequently transferred to the premises of the Social Reintegration number two of Apodaca, for allegedly committing the crimes of diversion of money from the treasury, as well as human and material resources to use them in his presidential election campaign.

“The crime attributed to my defendant, the former governor, does not warrant informal preventive detention, so he must be released after the hearing, that is our point of view,” his lawyer Victor Olea, the legal defender, commented in an interview for the Grupo Formula news program “In the morning”, noting that the former governor could leave of imprisonment following the first hearing in the case against him, stressing that due to the offenses of which he is accused of pre-trial detention is not necessary.

In addition, Víctor Olea assured that the instances through which the case is being investigated are not adequate since, since it is an electoral issue at the federal level, the Nuevo León Public Prosecutor's Office does not have the necessary powers. As he explained, the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic should have been responsible for the investigations.

“In the case of a federal election, that is, that election to the Presidency of the Republic, the General Law clearly states that this is a matter of federal rather than local jurisdiction, that is, it is a case that should in no way have been investigated by the Nuevo León Prosecutor's Office for Electoral Crimes,” said the lawyer.

The Neolean authorities, for their part, specified that the arrest warrant was based on the opinion of a judge of control and trial of the entity: “the order was completed by the Prosecutor's Office in operational support of personnel of the State Investigation Agency, in coordination with officers of the Civil Force”, reads in the statement exposed.

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