Court confirms 5-years jail for son of former Supreme Court judge

The Superior Court of Appeals confirmed the sentences of 5 and 4 years in prison imposed on Oydén Ortega Collado, son of the former magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice, Oydén Ortega Durán, and Claudia Purcait for the crime of corruption of a public official, imposed by a Trial Court on March 25.

During a hearing held this Tuesday, September 6, the Court of Appeals decided to maintain the sanction imposed on Ortega Collado. In Purcait’s case, the prison sentence was commuted to the payment of a fine of $5,000 payable to the National Treasury.

The ruling maintained the decision of judges Ilka Castillo, Jennifer Saavedra, and Roberto Tejeira, who unanimously gave a guilty verdict for both defendants for having managed the handling of a judicial ruling that was in the Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice.