The court of the First Judicial Circuit of Panama, did not admit the request for house arrest to the defense of the former director general of Income Luis Cucalón, for not considering it viable, in a hearing this Friday, November 18.
During this hearing, the compliance court explained that the El Renacer prison has not issued any report that the state of health of the sanctioned person has been put at risk in recent months. A report from the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences establishes that the sanction imposed can be served in a prison
Cucalón was sentenced by the Court, to the penalty of 96 months in prison, for the crime against the public administration, in the modality of embezzlement and corruption of public servants to the detriment of the Ministry of Economy and Finance.
