translated from Spanish: Supreme grants nighthouse arrest to Carlos Cardoen

Today the Supreme Court overturned the decision decreed by Minister Carlos Aránguiz on 2 August, in which he rejected Cardoen’s request to change the precautionary measure of total house arrest to provisional release.A. although Joanna Heskia, the entrepreneur’s lawyer, sought freedom, the supremes Hugo Dolmestch, Carlos K.Nsem.ller, Manuel Valderrama and Jorge Dahm; they acceded to the request to downgrade the precautionary measure, thus leaving national roots and night house arrest. For this reason, Cardoen must be at its Fundo El Boldal located in Santa Cruz every day between 22:00 hours and 6:00 in the morning of the next day. This is the first time the Supreme Court has ruled in Cardoen’s favor. Earlier in July, a unanimous ruling rejected a very similar request made by the entrepreneur’s defense arguing that there was no new record in the case to change the injunction. It should be remembered that Cardoen is in an extradition trial by the US. The U.S. for events in 1989 that pointed to an eventual export of zirconia to make cluster bombs that were sold to Iraq.

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