 In 2017, the Special Judge of the Preliminary Hearings of the Supreme Court of Justice, Francisco Ortega Polanco, declared there was enough evidence provided by the AG for the case to go to trial and ordered that 10 of the 14 defendants in the case be detained pretrial.One of the accused was a fugitive, and subject to an arrest warrant and Interpol notice).Those remanded include Victor Diaz Rua, who had previously served as the country's Minister for Public Works and Communications, as well as the nations current Minister of Commerce, Temistocles Montas, who handed in his resignation to the Dominican president as a direct consequence of his being remanded.