{"id":472246,"date":"2025-06-20T16:13:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T20:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/antonio-espaillat-is-released-from-prison-after-posting-bail\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T16:13:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T20:13:26","slug":"antonio-espaillat-is-released-from-prison-after-posting-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/justice\/antonio-espaillat-is-released-from-prison-after-posting-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"Antonio Espaillat is released from prison after posting bail."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Santo Domingo.-<\/strong> The businessman <strong>Antonio Espaillat<\/strong> was released on parole this Friday after complying with the <strong>payment of the bail<\/strong> imposed by Judge <strong>F\u00e1tima Veloz<\/strong> for the judicial process against him and his sister Maribel Espaillat de Veras, both charged with involuntary manslaughter in the <strong>Jet Set<\/strong> case. <\/p>\n\n\nEspaillat left the jail of the Palace of Justice this afternoon accompanied by his lawyers and his sister. It is recalled that the judge of the Permanent Attention Office of the National District, F\u00e1tima Veloz, imposed on the Espaillat brothers a ban on leaving the country, periodic presentation and a bail of <strong>50 million pesos. <\/strong>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-06-18-122430.jpg\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"490983\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Antonio Espaillat&#8217;s lawyer rejects accusations from the Public Ministry<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe magistrate rejected the Public Prosecutor&#8217;s request for <strong>18 months of pre-trial detention<\/strong> for <strong>Antonio Espaillat<\/strong> and <strong>house arrest<\/strong> for his sister <strong>Maribel Espaillat<\/strong>, both accused of alleged <strong>negligence in the structural maintenance<\/strong> of the entertainment center <strong>Jet Set<\/strong>.\n\nAccording to the Public Ministry&#8217;s file, these failures would have caused the <strong>collapse of the establishment&#8217;s roof<\/strong>, a tragedy that occurred on <strong>April 8<\/strong> while a party was being held with the participation of merengue singer <strong>Rubby P\u00e9rez<\/strong>, who is among the <strong>235 people who died<\/strong>. The event also left more than <strong>180 injured<\/strong>.\n\nInstead of the requested measures, the court imposed <strong>financial guarantee<\/strong>, <strong>periodic reporting<\/strong> and <strong>prohibition from leaving the country<\/strong> for both defendants. Likewise, it declared the process as a <strong>complex case<\/strong>, which will allow the Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office to continue with the investigation for an extended period.\n\nThe Public Ministry has expressed its disagreement with the judicial decision and announced that it will <strong>appeal the coercive measure<\/strong>, considering that it does not correspond to the magnitude of the damage caused or the level of responsibility attributed to the accused.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.- The businessman Antonio Espaillat was released on parole this Friday after complying with the payment of the bail imposed by Judge F\u00e1tima Veloz for the judicial process against him and his sister Maribel Espaillat de Veras, both charged with involuntary manslaughter in the Jet Set case. Espaillat left the jail of the Palace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":472247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[36952],"tags":[40020,40352],"class_list":["post-472246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-justice","tag-antonio-espaillat","tag-jet-set-tragedy"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1YQS","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-06-20-161131.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Arelis Suero","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cropped-cropped-Diseno-sin-titulo-41-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Justice"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-06-20-161131.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}