Why does bachatero Anthony Santos have an arrest warrant?

Holy! Bachata singer Anthony Santos is in the middle of a controversy. That’s right!

Turns out it is judge of The Second Chamber of the Criminal Chamber of the National DistrictHe issued an arrest warrant against bachatero Anthony Santos for sedition and his repeated failure to appear for hearings in the main trial pending against him for alleged violation of Copyright Law 65-00.

The judge made the decision this week Clara Luz Almonte Gómezin the new hearing of the case, which is being conducted due to the claim of the heirs of the Dominican composer Tatico Henríquez, according to international media.

According to Wagner Rodríguez, a lawyer for Elba Chaljub Mejía and Julio García Reynoso, Singer Anthony Santos, also known as “Mayimbe de la Bachata”, always sends as an excuse that he is sick or traveling.

This week, at a hearing on Thursday his lawyer Carlos Balcáceralleged health problems and that for these reasons he could not appear.

Balcácer attributed the arrest warrant against his client to “confusion.” Santos also did not attend the hearing.

Background

In December 2022, u “Mayimbe de la Bachata”, Anthony Santos, A substantive trial has been launched against him in a trial brought against him by the descendants of the popular typical merenguero Tatico Henríquez, who accuse him of mutilating, recording and promoting the song “Corazón de piedra”.

At that moment, a year ago, Judge Deiby Timoteo Peguero “accepted the charge” which was filed by the State Ministry and the lawsuit as a civil plaintiff by the heirs of the singer-songwriter who died in a traffic accident 46 years ago.

The plaintiffs are seeking damages of ten million pesos.