Judge Reinaldo Cevallos said that Salcedo should remain in a prison for the validity of the sentence to 13 years in prison, for the crime of embezzlement.
Although a Court of Criminal Guarantees granted alternative measures (house arrest) to Daniel Salcedo, within the process for organized crime, other investigations are continuing against him that would prevent him from leaving the prison where he is located.
Noé, Salcedo’s brother, would also benefit from the change in measures.
Judge Reinaldo Cevallos said that Daniel Salcedo should remain in a prison for the duration of the sentence to 13 years in prison, for the crime of embezzlement.
Daniel Salcedo will leave Prison 4 in Quito, the lawyer announced; Prosecutor’s Office denied change of measures by the Court
The magistrate, who led part of that process, recalled that Salcedo received that penalty in the case that investigates the alleged overprice in the sale of covers for corpses in the Los Ceibos hospital of the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute (IESS), in July of 2020.
“He could not leave because according to the Comprehensive Organic Penal Code, he is responsible for serving the sentence in a detention center, the continence of the causes cannot be divided, singling out in that case (of organized crime) the arrest and the serving the sentence; it goes against the law, which cannot happen, ”said Cevallos.
Prosecutor’s Office: Criminal Court confirms that it has not granted a change of measures for Daniel Salcedo
In turn, the judge said that what could happen would be the transfer to a different place temporarily when an emergency warrants it, such as an illness.
Weeks ago, a court in El Oro confirmed the innocence of the Salcedo brothers in the case for alleged money laundering.
For 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 Daniel. Meanwhile, for the entry of prohibited items to jail he was sentenced to three years in prison. (I)
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