Ruben Costas hearing for embezzlement was suspended.

EMBEZZLEMENT • The hearing was due to open against Ruben Costas for embezzlement was suspended for procedural flaws in notification to the accused.

By EUGEN ROXAS

The hearing was due to open against Ruben Costas for embezzlement was suspended for procedural flaws in notification to the accused. © The Achacachi Post™

SANTA CRUZ DE LA SIERRA, Bolivia.- By spending 10 million of Bolivians in the referendum on autonomy statutes, the former prefect Rubén Costas was taken yesterday before Judge Alberto Zeballos, but the hearing was adjourned because the complaint, Hugo Raul Montero did not attend.

The event started at 15:40 in a crowded courthouse until they reached the followers of the former authority and others who remained at a vigil the night before.

Costas sat on the left side of the room accompanied by his attorney Henry Williams. On the right were Hugo Iquise and Róger Guzmán prosecutors with several codes in hand and underscored papers ... all set for judicial fight.

Ruben Costas sat on the left accompanied by his lawyer Henry Williams. On the right were Hugo Iquise and Róger Guzmán the prosecutors. Photo © ErnestoJustiniano.org

Everything was ready and even journalists had been withdrawn back because they had shot down a screen to enter when the Zeballos judge noted that one of the protagonists, the complainant, was not in the courtroom. So judge decided to suspend the hearing until February 4 at 9:00.

Williams Herrera, Ruben Costas’ lawyer, asked to continue but the judge was blunt and did not want go on with the hearing because it would be canceled, so he instructed the notification of Hugo Raul Montero while the prosecutor Hugo Iquisa blamed the court for failing to act diligently.

Source: ErnestoJustiniano.org