Daniel Ochy, the legal representative of the Transcaribe Trading Company ( TCT ), who has spent over two years in preventive detention, charged with embezzlement in the extension of the Arraiján-La Chorrera highway was released from El Renacer Prison on Tuesday, August 6.

Supreme Court  Judge Luis Ramón Fábrega, granted a habeas corpus in favor of the accused. The measure was executed the same day.  Judge Harry Diaz saved his vote.

Ochy remains under house arrest and an impediment to leaving the country without judicial authorization.

Ochy, has been called to trial by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office of with his brother  David and nine other people, including former ministers of Public works of the Martinelli government Federico Suárez and Jaime Ford.

The Comptroller General of the Republic estimated at $7.9 million the possible property injury to the State in the payments made by the MOP to TCT for the work, which was tendered at $152.6 million but ended up costing $161.8 million.