Court of Appeals revokes Leonardo Labrador’s provisional detention and gives him house arrest

The Court of Appeals revoked the provisional detention measure against Dr. Leonardo Labrador and imposed house arrest on him for the case of swabbing travelers from Taboga Island.

Meanwhile, for Carmen Arosemena and Ana Lorena Chang, the Court upheld the house arrest measure.

For Labrador, the Court considered the most appropriate measure because the doctor has already been dismissed from the Ministry of Health (Minsa) and therefore, will not have access to information or due to the possible destruction of evidence.

Norma González, lawyer for the technologist Carmen Arosemena, reiterated her client’s innocence and maintains that Arosemena was not present in hotels where tests were supposedly being carried out.

The lawyer assures that her client is being used to “clean the face of the truly corrupt” in this case.

Husbands Labrador and Chang are linked to Sermedic, a laboratory that received permission from the Minsa to carry out swab tests, in the midst of a pandemic. Sermedic, in addition, was the only swab center installed on the dock of the boats that leave for Taboga and other Pacific islands, just when a Minsa order came into force to allow only travelers with a vaccination card to enter those islands. or negative swab test.