Since July 2017, the Public Prosecutor’s Office maintains that Banco Popular officials, who were arrested on Wednesday in a series of raids, sold Chinese cement through the Internet and institutional telephones.
The Prosecutor’s Office requested six months of preventive custody against six people, four of them officials of the bank who are now suspects of embezzlement for omitting the security protocols and turning $5 million to Chinese cement importer Juan Carlos Bolaños, while they marketed the cement themselves.
The request for the precautionary measure was made against the general manager and the financial manager of the Chinese cement company Sinocem named Rojas Segura and Cortez Zúñiga, as well as the credit analyst and the corporate business executive of Banco Popular, Bogantes Brenes and Gómez Barrantes.
They are joined by the director of Corporate Banking, Alpízar Hidalgo, who was also part of the Full Credit Management Committee, and the head of the Corporate Institutional Banking Division, identified as Delgado Negrini.