Blue Apple: Prosecution requests 'exemplary' sentences for Pepe Suárez, Jaime Ford and 12 others.

After eight hours of pleadings, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office requested a conviction and the application of "exemplary" sentences for 14 people for crimes ranging from money laundering, corruption of officials and criminal conspiracy, in the trial of the so-called Blue Apple case. In addition, he asked for the acquittal of two other people.Prosecutor Edwin Juárez asked criminal judge Baloisa Marquínez for a guilty verdict for Federico Pepe Suárez and Jaime Ford, who served as heads of the Ministry of Public Works between 2009 2014, for having requested "political aid" (bribes) to State contractor companies in exchange for facilities for the execution and collection of infrastructure projects.Pepe SuárezIn the case of Suárez, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office assured that he maintained business relations with Felipe Lechter, who agreed to a collaboration agreement and accepted to have been a recipient of money coming from Blue Apple, which ended up benefiting Suárez. Lechter admitted that he received two checks for $10 million from Blue Apple.