Ex-OAS chief jailed

An appeals judge yesterday overturned a previous ruling and ordered the former head of the Organisation of American States (OAS) jailed while prosecutors prepare corruption charges against him.

Miguel Angel Rodriguez had been under house arrest for two weeks since resigning as head of the Washington-based OAS and flying to his homeland to answer accusations he received kickbacks from a government contract granted to a French company while he was serving as Costa Rica’s president from 1998 until 2002.