A CENTRAL figure in the Blue Apple bribery investigation has been released from preventive detention to “country arrest” which means he cannot leave the country and must report to authorities at stated intervals.

The plenum of the Supreme Court of granted a habeas corpus to  Joaquín Rodríguez Salcedo, under investigation by the Sixth  Anti-corruption Prosecutor's Office Although the Supreme Court favored him with a change of measure, it also ruled that his preventive detention issued by the Anti-corruption Prosecutor's Office was legal.

Rodríguez Salcedo, who is the son-in-law of  PRD lawmaker, Elías Castillo, was incarcerated in El Renacer prison from  January 5 after completing his initial interrogation.

At the time of his arrest, he was Vice President of Factoring and Surety of Global Bank and is linked to the investigation because, he supposedly, made factoring contracts between Global Factor and government contractors guaranteeing with an invoice or accounts receivable with the State.

The investigations focus on which contractors of the Ministry of Public Works paid bribes through the company Blue Apple Services, Inc., supposedly in exchange for expediting procedures and disbursements for work during the  Ricardo Martinelli government.