Release former official linked to the rockash case

The execution of the national district judge left yesterday released the former Undersecretary of environmental management, Héctor René Ledesma Hernández, after being imprisoned in a State of rebellion, because he did not attend the Court for the knowledge of a hearing, after a conviction for deposit more than 26,000 tons of rockash in puerto Creek barrel, Samaná, during the months March-April of the year 2004.

Judge Saulo Isabel Díaz ordered the release of Ledesma and set for January 20 the knowledge of a hearing in which the public prosecutor's Office seeks that it complies with a conviction that it was imposed, consisting of a fine of ten thousand times the minimum wage existing in the sector public.

"The was brought to the Court as an acting judge had issued order of conducencia by not to appear, but now we are ordering their freedom to go to the continuation of trial against", said the judge, upon arrival to the u000aOffice in the courthouse of the new city.

While attorneys Ledesma, Aristides Trejo Liranzo and Rafael Mejía Guerrero, sought rescission of the fine and instead they ordered to carry out social.

On July 26 2006, Ledesma was declared not guilty by the Collegiate Court of the judicial Department of San Francisco de Macorís. However, the Criminal Chamber of the jurisdiction overturned the decision and declared the accused guilty of violating several articles on the law of environment and natural resources, the rules of procedure permit and environmental licensing system, the regulation on the procedure for assessment of environmental impact and article 9 of the Basel Convention on the control of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal.

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