Mulino accuses JC Varela of his transfer to a small cell

Former Public Security Minister Jose Raul Mulino reported last Sunday in his weekly letter how the given order for cell change, which blamed the president Juan Carlos Varela.

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"It was 5:00 pm or so on Wednesday March 2, regular business day. I was resting a bit after a long day of sightseeing, believe it or not", he said.

He said later, Gilberto Commissioner Glen, head of the DIP, entered his cell and told him that he had a not very good news because it would be taken to jail where he was detained the former Minister of Economy and Finance, Frank de Lima.

"When asked why, he just said: you know that those orders are higher and come from the Directorate General," said Mulino in his letter number 19.

"The fact that Frank was here is not synonymous with comfort or privilege", had told the former minister.

He stressed that it is a small room and order of tax (as heard in the cell), put a gate on the door and window, which is sealed and the daylight does not let

"Just what Legal Medicine has said and reiterated that threatens my health by chronic embolism box," said the former minister.

"All day, moreover, enclosed with a wooden door that is mandatory to have closed," she explained.

He stressed that the reduced visits a day, plus temporary jail in the National Police (PN) not provide food nor can wash your clothes.

"The order really where it came from?" Asked Mulino.

He said, speculating, it can only came from president Varela or the director general of the National Police, Omar Pinzon, or deputy Abdul Ledezma, in the absence of Pinzon.

"It came from the outside, I insist," he said.

Political prisoner

Mulino stressed that he is detained for political reasons and a disproportionate revenge has finally become karma.

"If the prosecutor appeals measuring the change in the event that if granted, after everything that has happened and that his tomb miserably case, revenge will be repeated," said the former official.

He added that the prosecution appealed his release is to reiterate these four wrongs that were the foundation of their initial refusal.

"A lot has happened to me, I lost a lot here, personally and with my family, but I gained a lot too. Every day here is my one less of them all there," said Mulino.

The defense team of former minister tomorrow will confirm if Mulino will grant a measure of country jail and sign the 30th of each month until the preliminary hearing of his case develops.

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Estado pacta

• El Gobierno acordó con la empresa italiana Finmeccanica la devolución de 12 de los 19 radares comprados por el Estado.

• En el pacto entre ambas partes se incluyó el reconocimiento de que no hubo pago de coimas por la adquisición de los radares, razón por la cual el exministro José Raúl Mulino está preso, ya que el Ministerio Público consideró que hubo lesión patrimonial al Estado. El equipo de la defensa del exministro solicitó al Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores copia del acuerdo para usarlo en la defensa, mientras que denunciaron que el sábado no les permitieron visitar al político porque eran órdenes.