The fifth criminal judge, Arnulfo Carrera, heard this Thursday, June 18, the arguments presented by the Public Ministry (MP), the Attorney General’s Office and the defense of Melvin Quijivix during the hearing related to dignified reparation.
The hearing for the resolution on dignified reparation was scheduled for July 16, according to Quijivix, who left the court when he was consulted about the acceptance of charges in the Red Q case.
Quijivix underwent the special acceptance of charges procedure in this case, in which, according to the investigation, suspicious bank transactions linked to its accounts for an approximate value of Q85 million were detected.
Just last March 3, Melvin Quijivix, former president of the National Institute of Electrification (INDE), was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison, commutable after accepting charges.
Prior to the intermediate stage hearing, the defense requested the modification of the crime of laundering money or other assets to that of conspiracy to launder money or other assets, a request that was accepted by Judge Arnulfo Carrera.
After the judge’s resolution, the hearing to accept charges was held, after the change in legal qualification.
The MP has reported that the Red Q case derives from the monitoring of bank transactions classified as suspicious in Quijivix accounts for at least Q85 million.
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