Aquiles Jiménez is ordered to provide an economic guarantee of 1.5 million pesos for defamation of journalist Alicia Ortega.

Santo Domingo. – A court imposed this Monday an economic guarantee of 1.5 million pesos, through an insurance company, to Aquiles Jiménez, for a complaint filed by journalist Alicia Ortega and her husband Fernando Hasbún for defamation and insult.

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It is recalled that the Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of the National District imposed periodic presentation as a coercive measure against the accused Aquiles Jiménez Fernández, arrested in flagrante delicto while illegally carrying a bulletproof vest for military use. Judge Rigoberto Sena ordered that Jiménez Fernández appear on the 30th of each month before the Public Prosecutor’s Office. According to the instance presented by prosecutor José Martínez, attached to the Department of Criminality and Crimes against Persons (Homicides) of the National District, the arrest of the accused took place on July 22, around 7:00 p.m., on Federico Geraldino Avenue, near Porfirio Herrera Street, in the Piantini sector. In that place, National Police agents observed a BMW vehicle, model 430 Xl, black, two-door, with official license plate OC046001, which was circulating suspiciously. Upon stopping it and attempting to clear the plate in the police system, it yielded no results, so they proceeded to conduct a more detailed inspection. You can also read: Two of the injuries in Naco remain serious The driver identified himself as Aquiles Jiménez Fernández and claimed that the vehicle had been imported from Miami, Florida, by the company Dulce Auto Import Export, without showing documentation proving its ownership or legal circulation. At the time the vehicle was registered, officers seized a black bulletproof vest in the back seat, brand Point Blank, with serial number HL6M080MFT.VKA.48.R and barcode 12519278, without any documentation. In the same record, an ID card from an auxiliary intelligence agency of the Ministry of Defense was found, expired since May 2024, along with other personal items. The Public Ministry legally classified the events as illegal carrying of military equipment, in violation of article 70 of Law 631-16 for the Control and Regulation of Weapons, Ammunition and Related Materials, which establishes sanctions for those who carry, possess, transport or store military equipment or restricted materials without authorization, with penalties of up to 20 years in prison and a fine of 100 to 200 minimum wages in the public sector.