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10-17-2008, 04:20 PM
General Prosecutor Ramon Jimenez Pena chose to avoid speaking to the press and instead issued a press release explaining why he authorized an assistant prosecutor to issue a no-objection statement in response to a petition from former Bancredito bankers Arturo Pellerano and Felipe Mendoza's defense lawyers for dropping a General Prosecutor's Office case against them. The statement justifies the position on the grounds that the compensation claims that sparked off the case have since been paid. Francisco Checo of Participacion Ciudadana, speaking on the Huchi Lora afternoon CDN talk show, argued that this had already happened when the same General Prosecutor's Office pursued the case and obtained an increase in the sentence from three to eight years in court. The state spent millions on pursuing the case, and now having won it seeks reversal.
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