An Appeals Court ordered the provisional arrest of the former head of Operations of the National Charity Lottery (LNB), Franklin De Gracia Domínguez. Since November 2021, the former official maintained precautionary measures to prevent him from leaving the country and periodic notification.
De Gracia Domínguez -who joined the entity in 2019 and was separated in November 2021- is one of the six people that the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor is investigating for the alleged commission of the crime of embezzlement through the irregular collection of tickets and winning chances .
Last year they had applied the measure of periodic notification and impediment to leave the country. But they revoked it and ordered her arrest, an action that did not occur after her defense appealed. That is why she returned to enjoy the measure of country by prison.
However, this Wednesday they revoked that measure again. The anti-corruption prosecutor Itzel Ko indicated that the magistrates of the Court unanimously considered that the procedural risks remained in the investigation.
The prosecutor stated that in the imputation of charges against the former official of the National Charity Lottery, greater elements of conviction were incorporated that link him in a reliable manner in the current investigation.
“In addition to this, we had interviews that categorically point it out, as well as an internal audit by the Lottery that proved a greater damage than what we had previously pointed out, thus proving, with this element of conviction, the economic damage against the public treasury. “, said.
The magistrates said that it is an act of a “serious nature” against the LNB and could affect other means of evidence since the Public Ministry will require the appearance of other people and De Gracia Domínguez “could communicate with the people accused in the investigation”.
The others investigated are two other former officials with the provisional detention measure, the rest are three individuals: two with provisional detention and one with the periodic notification measure.
