The former director general of Prisons, Mario Acosta Santos, accused of receiving more than a million pesos in bribes from a prisoner, Pascual Cordero Martinez (El Chino), has been transferred from the Palace of Justice, where he has spent the last week and taken to prison in Najayo under strict security.

Leaving the Palace of Justice yesterday, Monday 3 September, Acosta Santos insisted that he was innocent of all charges and would prove this in court.

Last Friday, 31 August, Judge Jose Alejandro Vargas imposed three months in remand for Acosta Santos. Prosecutor Yeni Berenice Reynoso had asked for one year's preventive custody.

An investigation by the Attorney General's office found that Cordero Martinez had paid more than a million pesos to Acosta Santos in return for returning him to Victoria jail from Higuey. The allegation is reportedly backed up by dozens of taped phone calls from Acosta Santos to Cordero Martinez via Jose Alexis Jimenez, who is in prison on suspicion of killing a PRD security man in Villa Mella.

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