The ninth criminal hall of the Court of First Instance of the National District condemned a year of prison and to the payment of a fine equivalent to fifty minimum wages to the former director of Information Technology of the General Directorate of Ethics and government integrity (Digeig) for deleting data sensitive belonging to that state entity.
The Attorney General’s Office reported this Sunday about the ruling and identified the sentenced as Dahiri Miguel Espinosa Guerra.
According to a press release, Espinosa Guerra was found guilty of damage or alter data Informatics in its status as a public employee, violating article 10 and its paragraph of Law 53-07 on high-tech crimes and crimes.
The sentence occurs after a formal accusation presented by the Ministry Publicthrough the Specialized Attorney’s Office against Crimes and Crimes of High Technology (PEDATEC), headed at that time by the current attached attorney Iván Féliz Vargas.
Sensitive data erased
According to the press document, during the judgmenthe fiscal litigator Merlin Mateo Sánchez managed to prove that the defendant deliberately erased 377,969 records of the institution after July 5, 2020, date of the elections National
Among the Information eliminated They were key files such as:
- Saip, platform of Complaints and access to public information;
- Sysplan, system For the planning Institutional strategic;
- File IPaclinked to an anti -corruption participatory initiative promoted by the UN.
He court ordered that Espinosa Guer conviction In the Najayo Men’s correction and rehabilitation center.