According to Pavel’s Canadian lawyer, Guillermo Cruz, that is why his client is still in jail. “The State has to fight with all the strength against organized crime. But in my case, I believe that innocent people have to pay the consequences of this policy,” said Cruz, who firmly believes his client is innocent.
Cruz showed W-FIVE what’s called an Auto de plazo constitutional, a document which summarizes all the evidence that the judge believes is relevant to the case — and reveals the allegations against Pavel Kulisek.
W-FIVE : Mexican Injustice : Mexican Injustice, part two
Source: W-FIVE/CTV
Pavel Kulisek se trasladó a México con su familia a finales del 2007 y en menos de cuatro meses se encontraba en una cárcel sin saber por qué. El 11 de marzo Kulisek cumple un año en cautiverio y aún no se ha fijado la fecha del juicio. Lo peor es que Ottawa aún no se pronuncia.
“Necesitamos más ayuda del gobierno canadiense y del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores”, dice el abogado de Kulisek, el mexicano Guillermo Cruz, encargado anteriormente del famoso caso de Brenda Martin.
Source: El Correo Canadiense
Pavel Kulisek’s takedown in Mexico was like a scene out of a movie.Crowded around a table at a hot-dog stand in Las Barrilles last March 11, the 43-year-old former North Vancouver man was dining with friends when federal police swooped in.Hours later he was languishing in a detention centre in Mexico City, charged with drug trafficking, promoting drug trafficking and promoting organized crime.He was introduced to Rivera, who was going by his alias, at a dirt-bike race. The two clicked, bonding over their passion for the sport and real estate. Rivera, a developer, offered Kulisek a job at the real-estate agency he wanted to open.”This is a man who was well-respected in the community,” said Guillermo Cruz Rico, the family’s lawyer, who two months ago represented another Canadian, Brenda Martin, on fraud charges.
Source: The Province
The family of a Canadian businessman detained in Mexico is pleading with the federal government to intervene on his behalf and bring him home.Pavel Kulisek, 43, was arrested March 11 in Los Barilles and held in a detention centre in Mexico City. He was officially charged on June 16 with drug trafficking, promoting drug trafficking and promoting organized crime and has since been languishing in a maximum security prison in Guadalajara.But she knows it is hard to fight the Mexican justice system. The family hired lawyer Guillermo Cruz Rico, who two months ago defended another Canadian, Brenda Martin, held in the same prison on fraud charges.
Source: North Shore New
A discussion about Brenda Martin’s reaction to the fact that it may take ten business days before a final decision is made in her case.
Canada AM: Guillermo Cruz Rico, Brenda Martin’s lawyer
Source: CTV
The only glimmer of hope was a sworn affidavit by Alyn Waage saying that Brenda had nothing to do with TriWest. But even though this evidence was admitted into a Mexican court it has had little or no impact, because according to Brenda, she has had a series of ineffective or incompetent lawyers.Desperately in need of some solid legal advice, Brenda’s childhood friend, Tieleman, did some research and found the name of Guillermo Cruz Rico. Cruz is a high-powered Mexican lawyer living in Canada. Visiting Brenda in Guadalajara, Cruz realized there was only one shot left to get Brenda out of prison. He filed a constitutional challenge called an Amparo.
Source: W-FIVE/CTV
After more than two years behind bars in Mexico, Brenda Martin walked away from a Canadian prison cell Friday on full parole.
Her lawyer, Luis Guillermo Cruz Rico, said she has been released into her mother’s custody and will be staying with her at her home in Trenton, Ont.
Martin was overcome with emotion as she spoke to reporters outside the gates of the Grand Valley Institution in Kitchener, Ont.
Source: Canwest News Service
Advocates of a woman languishing in a Mexico jail have asked Foreign Affairs to lobby to have Brenda Martin expelled from the country, saying she isn’t being treated fairly by the Mexican legal system.
Guillermo Cruz Rico, Ms. Martin’s lawyer, said he has provided a government official with Mexican legal precedents for the expulsion of a foreigner.
“We are considering this option because unfortunately Brenda’s situation is quite difficult,” he said, adding she is mentally and physically fragile.
Mr. Cruz said there is a provision in the Mexican constitution that allows the executive branch to expel foreigners “considered inconvenient to the Mexican government.” In 1996, he said, the government expelled a man accused of drug trafficking and money laundering to the United States.
Source: Globe and Mail
Former prime minister Paul Martin has had a meeting with Canadian Brenda Martin in the Mexican jail in which she has been imprisoned without trial for more than two years.Martin flew to Guadalajara this morning from Mexico City where he was attending meetings aimed at expanding the G8 to include a dozen more countries, including Mexico.
Source: Edmonton Journal
Toronto lawyer Guillermo Cruz Rico appeared before a Mexican judge last month to argue for Ms. Martin’s release from a Guadalajara jail.Mr. Cruz alleges Mexican authorities violated her civil rights by not offering a translator at any stage of the police investigation or the legal process.
Source: Globe and Mail
