$47 million embezzlement suspect from cell to luxury hospital
LUIS CUCALÓN, the former director of the General Department of Revenue, has moved from a cell in El Renacer prison to a bed in one of Panama’s most expensive hospitals
Cucalón, who, is accused of embezzlement over the payment of $47 million in commissions to the company Cobranzas del Istmo, hired to collect back taxes and alleged to have paid hundreds of housands of dollars to Ricardo Martinelli.
is being treated in Punta Pacifica Hospital after an assessment by doctors at the prison and the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences report TVN and La Prensa.
He will undergo surgery in the next few days says his lawyer.
