Hospital skulking embezzler gets 8-years $6.12 million seized

Luis Cucalón, former director of the General Revenue Directorate who skulked for two years in Panama’s most expensive private hospital to avoid preventive detention, will have less comfortable quarters in the coming years as a judge handed down a stiff jail sentence on Monday, September 17.

The First Criminal Court issued a judgment of 96 months in prison to the author of crimes of embezzlement and corruption of public servants.

The sentence is related to the investigations for irregularities in the collection of taxes through the company Cobranzas del Istmo.

In addition, the judge ordered the confiscation of $6.128 451 plus the interest generated, seized in a Panama bank.