Overview

• The Ninth District criminal court granted temporary protection that applies only to fresh arrest, detention or appearance orders distinct from the known case.
• Judge Jovita Vargas set a 100,000‑peso bond due within five days and required his appearance before the issuing authority within five business days.
• The order bars any deprivation of liberty during its validity, including if he attends an initial hearing or if prosecutors seek preventive detention.
• A hearing on August 22 will determine whether the suspension becomes definitive.
• Separately, an arrest warrant over alleged overpricing of seven barracks—on counts of peculado, money laundering, criminal association and fraudulent administration—remains active after a judge deemed it “founded and motivated” in June, with a review pending before the Quinto Tribunal Colegiado.