Judge Claribel Nivar granted this Thursday house arrest the former administrator of the National Lottery, Luis Maisichell Dicent, implicated in the alleged framework of administrative corruption dismantled through operation 13.
The variation of the measure of coercion also establishes the impediment of leaving the country for the alleged ringleader of the embezzlement, after serving 18 months of preventive detention in the Najayo prison.
substantive judgment
Last Tuesday the Public ministry was able to read 69 of the 240 pages that contain the accusation against those involved in a millionaire fraud in the National Lottery.
Thus began the trial of the defendants of being a member of an alleged network of administrative corruption and known by the Second Collegiate Court of the National District.
Dicent is accused of planning the fraudulent draw held on May 1, 2021.
Other defendants
According to the Public Ministry, the fraud carried out to the detriment of the National Lottery and gambling banks amounts to more than 500 million pesos.
The defendants William Lizandro Rosario Ortiz and Eladio Batista Valerio are in preventive detention as a measure of coercion at the Najayo Men’s Correction and Rehabilitation Center.
While Valentina Rosario Cruz, Jonathan Brea, Carlos Berigüete and Felipe Santiago Toribio have house arrest.
Regarding the defendants Edison Manuel Perdomo Peralta, Miguel Mejía and Rafael Mesa, there is a periodic presentation and an impediment to leave the country.
The fugitive Leónidas Medina Arvelo (Nazaret) is also linked to this case.
