Before the preventive detention was ratified, louis dicent, former administrator of the Lottery and accused of fraud in the entity, he wished this Thursday that euthanasia existed in the country (a process that allows accelerating the death of a person with a terminal illness), to opt for it “right now.”
Dicent said it had nothing to do with him. fraud in the Lottery, for which he is serving preventive detention in Najayo. “I wonder if after being in the newspapers so many times, and the newspapers telling the crooked truth so many times, it makes sense to continue living,” he said.
“Sometimes I would like euthanasia to be the law in this country and I could opt for it right now, right now, because every time I have to see my children asking me when I’m coming back (…)”, he said in front of the judges of the Second Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeal of the National District, which after hearing this and hearing an appeal that he filed to get out of prison, they denied him parole.
He indicated that it is not true what was said by the Specialized Prosecution Office for Administrative Corruption (Pepca), that he was part of a plot to commit a millionaire fraud in one of the National Lottery draws.
“I had nothing to do with that, I swear to God for my life… and if I had had to do with that, the least I do is to the Prosecutor’s Office, my serious mistake was to believe in the Prosecutor’s Office, there are things that are going to turn out serious now, they did not remember my phone, I handed it over and it turns out that today there are things and videos that are not there, that I told them”, Dicent specified when making use of his material defense.
Nine months after serving preventive detention at the Najayo-Men Correction and Rehabilitation Center, Dicent filed an appeal to have the prison vary for an economic guarantee, periodic presentation and impediment to leave, but it was unsuccessful.
The defendant said at the hearing that he will not withdraw from the process if he is released. The defense argued that Dicent has “more than enough” budgets not to escape.
For this case, the Specialized Attorney for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca) He filed a formal accusation against Dicent and the others involved. The preliminary hearing is scheduled to start on April 18.
Together with Dicent, his alleged partner, the banker Willian Rosario Ortiz and Eladio Batista Valerio, are serving preventive detention in Najayo.
While the presenter Valentina Rosario, the technicians Carlos Berigüete and Jonathan Brea, as well as the accused Felipe Santiago Toribio, are under house arrest.
On his side, the blind Miguel Mejía, the driver Rafael Mesa and the cameraman Edison Manuel Perdomo Peralta meet regularly with an impediment to leaving the country.
On April 18, then, this judicial process will enter a crucial stage, in which it will be determined if it has sufficient merit to reach a substantive trial. The decision will be made by the Third Court of Instruction of the National District.
Pepca prosecutors have been confident that they will be able to go to trial and obtain an “exemplary” conviction.
Among the evidence that the prosecution body has, prosecutor Andrés Mena said last month, there are electronic expert reports, as well as those related to banking entities and others provided by the victims and the plaintiffs. “A number of robust elements to obtain an exemplary conviction in this affectation of the national banking system,” he said.
