His sponsoring attorney expects the disposition to run through Friday this week. Processed, he will go to his home in Guayaquil.
Daniel Salcedo Bonilla will serve under house arrest by disposition of the Guayaquil Criminal Court, in charge of the organized crime process that is being followed against him.
This was indicated by his lawyer, Joan Paul Egred, who said that Salcedo is expected to leave prison 4, in the north of Quito, this week to comply at his home, in Guayaquil, with the substitute measure issued this Monday.
“The serious shortcomings that currently exist in the prison system are known to all citizens. And in that particular case, this measure needs to be reviewed precisely for that. At this time, Mr. Salcedo is subject to precautionary measures of preventive detention and a final final judgment and, therefore, our criterion was that the substitution of this precautionary measure for a house arrest was definitely operating, ”Egred explained.
Judicial causes in which Daniel Salcedo is investigated. Is there an accumulation of penalties or does the highest prevail?
Salcedo is prosecuted for embezzlement in the purchase of medical supplies at the Los Ceibos hospital of the Social Security Institute (IESS).
For this reason, a Court of Criminal Guarantees ruled, in the first instance, 13 years of deprivation of liberty.
For the crime of procedural fraud, which was derived from the accident of a plane in the border area of Tumbes (Peru), in December of last year, a Court of Criminal Guarantees, in Guayaquil, ordered a sentence of four years for Salcedo.
Meanwhile, for the crime of entering prohibited items in jail, he was sentenced to three years in prison and to the payment of a fine of four unified basic salaries ($ 1,600).
Daniel Salcedo receives a three-year sentence for a cell phone that was found in his cell in Prison 4
In the case of organized crime, Salcedo is investigated for being part of an alleged network that was dedicated to the irregular sale of medicines to public hospitals.
In November of last year, Daniel and his brother Noé Salcedo were called to trial as alleged perpetrators of the crime of money laundering for having, according to the accusatory prosecutor’s opinion, money of illicit origin, transferring them to the financial system and acquiring assets inside and outside the country in order to hide the illicit origin of the assets. (I)
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