Embezzler’s move to house arrest appealed

Luis Cucalón, the former director of the General Directorate of Income  (DGI)who skulked in a private hospital for two years before being forced to attend trial where he was sentenced to eight years in jail for embezzlement has been granted a move to house arrest by a compliance judge.

Prosecutor Zuleyka Moore, who was representing the Public Ministry, disagreed with the decision made by Judge Sánchez, considering that the accused should finish serving time in prison.

This means that it will be up to the Superior Court of Appeals to determine whether to endorse the decision made by Judge Sánchez or to revoke it.

Cucalón is serving a sentence of 96 months in prison at the El Renacer Penitentiary Center, after the First Criminal Court on September 14, 2018 sentenced him for the crimes of corruption of a public official and embezzlement.

During his tenure with the DGI, Cucalón authorized the company Cobranzas del Istmo to collect irregular taxes, through whose management an injury to the State was caused.