Former mayor of Arraiján, convicted of corruption, has been a fugitive from justice for a year and a month

The former mayor of Arraiján, Pedro Sánchez Moró, who served in the position in the period 2014-2019, and who was sentenced to seven years in prison for embezzlement, has been a fugitive from justice for a year and a month.

Omar Rugliancich, former director of Human Resources for the municipality of Arraiján, was also sentenced to seven years in prison. In November of last year, Rugliancich was captured by the National Police and is serving his sentence after four years on the run.

The Liquidating Court of Criminal Cases reported that so far the official letter issued in March 2021 is maintained so that the National Police can carry out all the corresponding procedures and find the politician from the ruling Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD).

It should be remembered that on November 19, 2020, the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) did not admit the last appeal that Sánchez had -cassation- against the conviction imposed by a court in 2018.

This investigation by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office determined that Sánchez and Rugliancich named players from Santa Gema FC, a soccer team of which Sánchez Moro was the president, on the municipal payroll. In addition, it was determined that the players received the salary payment at the mayor’s office without there being any record of what functions they performed.