A Criminal Guarantees judge ruled a sentence of 20 months in prison against four people involved in counterfeiting dollars.
The four people were arrested early this Tuesday 8 in the Membrillo community, located in the Tenta parish, in the Saraguro canton of Loja.
They were identified as Mariano C., of Ecuadorian nationality; Víctor V., Carlos J. and Stephania M., of Colombian nationality, who submitted to an abbreviated procedure and accepted their responsibility in the manufacture, counterfeiting and adulteration of dollars.
Prosecutor Sandra Velasco presented as main evidence the investigative reports, the record of the collection of evidence seized during the raid, including 16,600 paper supports with impressions of 20 dollars (corresponding to about 300,000 false dollars), typographic plates, machinery, inks for print paper money, among other signs.
After evaluating the evidence presented by the prosecutor, the judge issued the sentence against the four people.
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According to the prosecutor, this would be the first counterfeit bill factory discovered in the country. With the procedure, the institution indicated, its circulation at the national level and in the region was stopped.
Article 306 of the Comprehensive Organic Criminal Code (COIP) punishes the crime of counterfeiting currency and other documents with a custodial sentence of five to seven years.
The Prosecutor’s Office explained that in this case a reduced sentence was applied because the defendants submitted to an abbreviated procedure and accepted their responsibility in the act. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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