DOMINICAN REP-BRAZIL-CORRUPTION-ODEBRECHT-SECURITY

Police officers stand guard as people demonstrate in support of former Dominican Industry and Trade Minister Temistocles Montas, detained in relation to the Odebrecht corruption scandal, as he attends a court hearing to appeal against the preventive detention imposed upon him on early June, in Santo Domingo on July 6, 2017. The Dominican Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) received appeals by 10 of the 14 defendants in the case of bribery that Brazilian construction company Odebrecht claimed to have paid in the country between 2001 and 2014 to obtain contracts. / AFP PHOTO / Erika SANTELICES (Photo credit should read ERIKA SANTELICES/AFP via Getty Images)