: The first thing I want to deny, I don’t belong to ‘La Linea,’ Perez Molina said, referring to the name of the fraud scheme, Spanish for The Line, according to The Toronto Star. The hearing wrapped in the afternoon and the judge said he would make a ruling Tuesday. The former leader denied prosecutors’ allegations that he was involved in a conspiracy to defraud the state by letting businesses evade import duties in exchange for millions of dollars in bribes. Perez Molina was ordered to remain in custody until then at the same military barracks where he spent his first night as an ex-president. They presented 77 wiretap conversations that totalled more than five hours and were recorded over multiple days, as well as documents seized in raids that detailed how the bribes were divvied up. Prosecutors argued that Perez Molina was, in fact, aware of the conspiracy, and formally asked the judge to order a trial on charges of illicit association and graft.
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