translated from Spanish: so was the oak audience

With her gaze lost in nothingness, Rosario Robles has just visibly desolate how, after a marathon hearing, a federal judge denies her for the third time the benefit of facing her process at liberty and sends her back to Santa Martha Acatitla, where she is sent back to Santa Martha Acatitla, where has been on remand since Last August because of his indictity in the case of The Master Scam for an alleged improper exercise in the public service.
“It’s very unfair this thing I’m living,” Rosario complains with a choppy voice and somewhat affronted by the air conditioning in the hearing room of the Reclusorio Sur, in Mexico City.
The former owner of Sedesol y Sedatu then reviews several of the points that, over a nine-hour day, she set out her team of lawyers and herself to try to convince the judge that she does not intend to flee and that a less precautionary measure s such as the use of an electronic bracelet and house arrest, would be sufficient to ensure that it will be presented to the following hearings in your case. 
Ganther Alejandro Villar, the new judge of control of the case replacing Felipe de Jesús Delgadillo Padierna, responsible for linking to the process and ordering the pre-trial detention of Robles, listens in the middle of a tense silence to the allegations of the ex-workeria.
He listens, for example, to say that she is not a liar, as she is accused by the agents of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, who point out that she has fallen into multiple contradictions since the first hearing of the case; like when at the time she was asked to appear to justice in Mexico she said she was on a sightseeing trip with her daughter in Paris, France, while her lawyers told the Public Prosecutor’s Office that she had gone to Costa Rica to take a course. 
And he also listens to her, and reiterates, that she also did not lie about her usual home in Coyoacán. And that, in fact, an expert who hired his defense has already proved that the signature that appears on a driver’s license in his name where a different address appears to his Coyoacán address, is false. So one of the evidence put forward by Judge Delgadillo Padierna to decree him with pre-trial detention for risk of escape would no longer be valid. 
And finally, the listener hears that it has “many doubts” about the resolution it has just issued, that the defence’s request to revoke or amend the precautionary measure of pre-trial detention is “unfounded”. 
 “Your Honor, this is already an early penalty. They are judging me for who I am,” Robles stresses with his eyes nailed to Judge Villar’s, to which Judge Villar, unperturbed, merely responds with a sentence: 
“I appreciate your comments, but my decision is already made.”
The addresses
Before reaching the decision of the judge, the officers of the Prosecutor’s Office and the team of three lawyers of Robles, in which since yesterday he is no longer part of Julio Hernández Barros himself, fought in one of the usual dialectical battles that have been seen in the previous audienc you’re on the case. 
A battle, however, that The Chief Ganther Judge Alejandro Villar tried to control from the beginning of the hearing, when he warned with a stern tone that he would not allow disqualifications during the process, and which, in fact, he fulfilled when he imposed fines of 20 minimum wages to the Prosecutor’s Office and the defense for not heeding their warning. 
On this occasion, the defense introduced a variant in its strategy: she called Rosario Robles to the stand for questioning. 
For about half an hour, the ex-worker answered her lawyers’ questions – she refused to do the same with those of the Public Prosecutor’s Office – to try to prove that in the last 24 years she has only had one address, which is located on Calle de Las Flores 91 , in the town of Coyoacán.
This point, it should be recalled, is key in the case, since at the initial hearing of the case the Prosecutor’s Office accused Robles of not giving certainty as to what his actual domicile is, which made Judge Delgadillo Padierna suspicious that there could be a risk of flight for lack of roots. 
In her speech, Rosario Robles stated that, while her usual address is that of the Coyoacán mayor, ensuring that this can be seen in multiple documentation, such as her INE and the deed of the property, she also rented two other departments during the six years who was a federal official: one, in Reformation 222, very close to the headquarters of Sedesol and Sedatu; and another at Tennyson 223, in Polanco, where he moved after the September 2017 earthquake.
“There are those who move to the National Palace to be close to their work, what I did was rent two apartments,” Said Robles, who nevertheless said that on weekends he would always return to “his country house” in Coyoacán, because that is his hog; where she has her cats and where she usually makes roasted meats with her daughter and her family.  
However, the defense move didn’t go quite well. 
In the statement of arguments as to why he declared the request to revoke the pre-trial detention unfounded, Judge Ganther Alejandro Villar pointed out as one of the reasons the contradiction between what was stated by Robles’ defence at the first hearing and what was said at this hearing about the number of homes where the former secretary of state lived. 
“All this time it has been insisted that there was only one home that has been living for 24 years. But today, at this hearing, two more are pointed out. That is, there are several different addresses than Rosario Robles said at the first hearing,” the judge put it.
Rosario’s travels
Other key points at the hearing were those relating to Rosario Robles’ travels and his economic capacity, another of the arguments put forward last August by Judge Delgadillo Padierna to decree pre-trial detention, for fear that, because of the inexpensive, could be fleeing. 
On this point, the defense noted that Rosario Robles is “a successful woman” who has held very important positions as head of government of Mexico City, and more recently as head of Sedesol and Sedatu. 
“You can’t criminalize someone for earning money from their work,” stressed lawyer Epigmenio Mendieta. 
“People can use their money for what they think is best. She decided to spend it on renting two apartments to be close to her job and on traveling. That can’t be a source of criminalization,” Mendieta insisted.
But the point of travel was, precisely, attacked hard by Manuel Granados, the representative of the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
In its exhibition, the Public Prosecutor’s Office detailed that between 2018 and 2019, that is, in 24 months, Rosario made 30 domestic and international flights at a cost of 1 million 671 thousand pesos. 
In 2018, there were 19 flights costing 1 million 163 thousand pesos to destinations such as Tokyo in Japan; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Seoul, Korea; Vancouver, Canada; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, New York and Washington, United States; or Buenos Aires, in Argentina. 
On the flight to Buenos Aires alone, Rosario spent more than 160 thousand pesos on tickets. 
However, Robles, who, while previously admitting that she “likes to travel a lot,” nuanced that these trips were not tourist, but made them a public servant representing Mexico at Events in Sedesol and Sedatu in the country and in different parts of the world. 
But, in 2019, when Rosario was no longer a civil servant, the Prosecutor’s Office detected that she made 11 flights in eight months for 507 thousand pesos to cities such as Madrid, Paris, Cancun, Acapulco, or Lima. On the flight to Paris alone, the Prosecutor’s Office abounded, Rosario Robles spent almost 200 thousand pesos.
Rosario says he earned 40,000, Prosecutor’s Office says 180,000
The Prosecutor’s Office set out these trips and then attacked another point: Rosario Robles’ heritage. 
According to information provided by the Secretariat of the Civil Service to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, Rosario Robles entered a total of 1 million 680 thousand pesos in 2013; in 2014, it rose to 2 million 318 thousand pesos; in 2015, 2 million 223 thousand pesos; in 2016, 2 million 266 thousand pesos; in 2017, 2 million 235 thousand pesos; and in 2018, 2 million 299 thousand pesos. 
In total, as secretary of state, Robles earned 12 million 961 thousand pesos, giving an average of 2 million 160 thousand pesos per year, and 180 thousand pesos per month in salary.
In addition, the Public Prosecutor’s Office also stated that, between 2013 and 2018, Rosario Robles withdrew from a savings fund another 3 million 200 thousand pesos, so, during the six-year term that she was a civil servant, she had revenues of more than 16 million pesos. 
These figures, the prosecutors stressed, contrast with what Rosario Robles said at other hearings, when he assured that his salary was 40 thousand pesos. 
This apparent contradiction was taken into account by Judge Ganther Alejandro Villar, noting that “Rosario Robles’ economic capacity is superior to that which has been presented in previous hearings”. 
Argument that, among others, he used to deny Rosario Robles, once again, the revocation of the precautionary measure of pre-trial detention, and send it back to the penal of Santa Martha Acatitla.
“The Public Prosecutor’s Office offended us”
At the end of the hearing, Mariana Moguel, daughter of the federal ex-official, said she was saddened by the judge’s determination, and reiterated her public demand that Rosario Robles not be used as “a trophy of an alleged fight against corruption.” 
In addition, he accused the Public Prosecutor’s Office of having offended his family, calling Rosario a “liar”. 
For his part, lawyer Epigmenio Mendieta said that on Thursday he will meet with Robles to define whether they appeal the judge’s decision or whether they will promote direct protection.
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