Due to health problems of one of its members, the Second Collegiate Court of the National District decided yesterday restart background trial against the defendants in the Lottery fraud, with the reading of the accusation by the Public ministry.
Judge Clara Castillo, who along with Claribel Nivar (president) and yissel sotomake up the collegiate, was replaced by the judge Kaytherine RubioTo continue with the process.
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The substantive trial of the so-called Operation 13, whose main defendant is the former director of the National Lottery Louis Dicentbegan on December 20, and to date 8 hearings had been held, four of them virtually due to the health of Judge Castillo, and only to formalize the postponement and prevent the case from falling.
Those charged in this case are, in addition to Dicent, William Lisandro Rosario Ortiz, Eladio Batista Valerio, Valentina Rosario Cruz, Jonathan Brea, Carlos Beriguete, Felipe Santiago Toribio; Edison Manuel Perdomo Peralta, Miguel Mejía, Rafael Mesa, and Leónidas Medina Arvelo) Nazareth=. The latter is on the run.
Of them, six have pleaded guilty to the charges against them, and five have repaid the MP RD$4 million of what was defrauded through a fraudulent raffle held on May 1, 2021.
