The Fifth Court of Control of Caracas sentenced Alí Humberto Escalona Méndez to 4 years and 8 months in prison, who admitted to being involved in the crimes of electronic theft and improper access to bank accounts of multiple victims, according to file 05C-S-1655- 2024. They alert to be studied to be released without signing a repair to those affected.
One of the victims denounced before the Cicpc that Escalona Méndez emptied his Citibank account when performing various transfers between October 2023 until January 2024, which added approximately 70 thousand dollars.
Under these facts, the Fifth Control Court of Caracas decreed arrest warrant against Escalona Méndez on March 23, 2024, directing a trade to the Cicpc to execute it. But the subject was captured in Barquisimeto (Lara) seven months later, that is, in October 2024, by agents of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB).
Subsequently, on October 18, 2024 the hearing was held to hear the accused, where the Public Ministry charged him with the crimes of electronic theft and undue access.
That same day, the subject admitted his participation in the criminal acts and the Fifth Control Court imposed the sentence of 4 years and 8 months in prison, as well as the fine of 287 tax units, as read in the sentence signed by the Judge César Loaiza.
Such decision was sent (via random distribution) to the Tenth Court of Execution of the Metropolitan Area of Caracas by Yeisdy Anderson, to set the parameters of compliance with the sentence, explained a judicial source.
One of the victims consigned a letter in the aforementioned court requesting that a site of seclusion at Escalona Méndez be set and warning him that said person will not be able to opt for a procedural benefit, such as probation, until he has completed three quarters of three parts of The penalty imposed. This, in response to the provisions of article 488 of the Organic Code of Criminal Procedure that prohibits granting said benefits to the defendants involved in 12 crimes, including those with multiplicity of victims as in the present case, explained the affected person in the document.
By judicial sources we knew that allegedly the Magri Moreno public defender also addressed the fifteenth Court of Execution of Caracas to allegedly suggest that Escalona Méndez was released.
