Acess official is prosecuted for alleged illicit enrichment

A judge of Criminal Guarantees granted substitute measures to the official of the Agency for Quality Assurance of Health Services and Prepaid Medicine (Acess) investigated for alleged crime of illicit enrichment.

The suspect was apprehended in a raid carried out at his home in Los Ceibos, in the north of Guayaquil, early on Wednesday, February 2.

This case, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, was opened from a complaint filed by Acess about alleged acts of corruption alerted by users about alleged extortion in exchange for avoiding the closure of medical offices.

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In a flagrancy hearing and formulation of charges, the prosecutor Danny Vizueta Prado presented the elements of conviction collected in this process that determine an alleged participation of the accused in the investigated fact.

The elements include the money found in the search of the home ($ 217,150 in cash), the technical eye inspection report, the recognition of the scene, the version of the agent and the investigative party, and the labor certification of the accused as a public servant. .

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The Judge of Criminal Guarantees, Marcos Guerra, dismissed the Prosecutor’s request for preventive detention and ordered house arrest measures, a ban on leaving the country and the use of an electronic surveillance device, the Prosecutor’s Office reported.

In the raid last Wednesday, police officers and prosecutors seized items of jewelry and documentation of the case.

The crime of illicit enrichment can be punished with a prison sentence of seven to ten years, establishes subsection 1 of article 279, subsection 1, of the Comprehensive Organic Criminal Code (COIP). (I)