Anti-corruption prosecutor asks conviction of ex-minister for unjustified enrichment

The discharge anti-corruption prosecutor, Ariel De Gracia, requested to convict the former Minister of Labor and Labor Development (Mitradel), Alma Cortés , and two other people for the crime of unjustified enrichment.

On the afternoon of this Tuesday, August 8, during his closing arguments, prosecutor De Gracia argued that Cortés had an unjustified increase in her assets when she served as minister.

The judicial official stressed that Cortés tried to justify the increase in assets, arguing that these resources were obtained as a result of a series of private activities, but that an audit report from the Comptroller General showed that he had an increase in assets that did not conform to her income as a civil servant.

He also said that he requested the sentence for Rubén Moreno and Osiris Herrera, to whom he indicated that they collaborated by providing their names to justify the increase in assets obtained by Cortés.

Prosecutor De Gracia also requested the protection of the assets of former Minister Cortés.

An audit report prepared by auditors from the Comptroller General revealed that the former minister could not justify the sum of $2.6 million acquired between 2009 and May 31, 2015, when she served as head of Mitradel.

The second liquidator judge of criminal cases, Agueda Rentería, accepted the term of 30 days to issue a sentence.