Jesús Murillo Karam is granted house arrest

MEXICO CITY.- A federal court granted Jesus Murillo Karamformer head of the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), the measure of house arrestso in the coming days he could leave the Tepepan Medical Tower where he is hospitalized.

By majority vote, the First Collegiate Court in Criminal Matters in Mexico City granted a definitive suspension to Murillo Karam consider your advanced age and your state of health.

The former attorney He is 76 years old and on several occasions he has been taken to the hospital to receive treatment for a chronic obstructive disease, arterial hypertension e cerebral vascular insufficiencysufferings that his defense used to ask the judge for his release from prison.

They ask to impose security measures

They asked as a preventive measure to be provided with a electronic braceleta device commonly used as a tool to carry out house arrest.

The control judge was also requested that Jesús Murillo Karam be the recipient of a security alert. prevention at international airports to avoid the risk of escape.

The General Prosecutor of the Republic (FGR) demanded that grant measures additional security controls, as well as permanent surveillance outside the home of Jesús Murillo Karam in Lomas de Chapultepec.

It should be noted that Jesús Murillo Karam is accused of the crimes of forced disappearance, coalition of public servants and torture in the Ayotzinapa Casewhich is why agents from the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) stopped in August 2022.

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