Ex-security director gets fresh detention order

FORMER National Security Council Director Alejandro Garuz, already residing in the El Renacer Prison, has received a second preventive detention order issued against  him.

The latest order  comes from Third Anti-Corruption Prosecutor Zuleyka Moore  during the  investigation into irregularities in the purchase of 19 radars from Selex, a subsidiary of the Italian conglomerate Finmeccanica, judicial sources  told La Prensa.

His current incarceration is while he awaits trial  on charges related to alleged illegal surveillance carried out by the agency during his administration.

Former Minister of Pubic Security José Raúl Mulino has also been detained over the radar case,