Marta Esquivel-Rodriguez, the president of Social Security, and seven members of the Social Security Board of Directors were released from the Public Ministry's cells in Guadalupe Canton, San José, on Tuesday after being detained for more than 30 hours as part of an investigation into an alleged $230 million fraudulent scheme.

The surnames Camareno, Rojas, Gómez, Araya, Porras, Gutiérrez, and Quirós have identified the other suspects linked to the inquiry. They served on the Social Security Board of Directors for 17 months, from February 2023 to July 2024.

According to the Deputy Prosecutor's Office for Probity, Transparency, and Anti-Corruption (FAPTA), the suspects may face pre-trial measures such as dismissal from their positions of authority, veto from leaving the country, banning from entering Social Security facilities, prohibition from speaking with witnesses and surrendering their passports to judicial authorities.

The court is scheduled to resolve the pretrial measures to be requested by the Prosecutor's Office on Wednesday.

On Monday, the Prosecutor's Office indicted these high-ranking Social Security executives as allegedly being involved in a potential $239 million fraud.

The case began when the Social Security Board of Directors annulled one agreement for choosing contractors for managing at least 138 public clinics known as Ebais.

The Prosecutor's investigation found that after allegedly annulling that agreement, the defendants used their board positions to create a new deal to hire cooperatives that would benefit from that second contract.