The doctor Aníbal Lotocki with He delivered on this Wednesday afternoon in a Police station of the city of La Plata, after ordered his arrest for the death of businessman Rodolfo Cristian Záratewhich occurred in 2021 during surgery at his clinic.
Chamber IV of the National Court of Criminal and Correctional Appeals confirmed his prosecution in that case and it was also established that the professional may hinder the investigation.
According to police sources, He surrendered at the Federal Police headquarters of the city of La Plata located on 49th Street No. 1004.
“We understand that the benefit granted must be revoked, since obviously new circumstances warrant a new analysis and consequently the arrest of the accused is imposed as an essential measure to ensure his subjection to the process,” the ruling detailed.
The court resolved to “revoke the release granted to Aníbal Rubén Lotocki within the framework of incident number 16744/21/1 and order his preventive detention, as well as his immediate arrest.”
“We conclude that it is possible, with the degree of certainty required for this stage of the process, to attribute criminal responsibility to the accused for the death of Zarate because his conduct was indisputably the determining cause of the result, which would not have occurred if he had not intervened. surgically to Rodolfo Cristián Zárate, or taken greater care during the control after its practicea,” the Chamber noted in the indictment issued this Tuesday.
Right nowJudge Luis Schlegel is in a position to send him to oral and public trial for the crime of simple homicide, which provides a sentence of up to 25 years in prison.
Who was Rodolfo Zárate
Rodolfo Cristian Zárate He was 50 years old andHe worked as a businessman in the construction industry and he had two children from his first marriage, aged 16 and 18, when he had died. She had grown up in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of San Justo and lived between Ramos Mejía and Luján.
Meanwhile, prior to his death, he had purchased land to build buildings in the aforementioned locations.
On April 15, 2021, Zarate entered the “CEMECO” clinic, located at Colpayo 20 in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Caballito, to undergo an scheduled dermolipectomy, intervention that consists of the removal of tissues in different parts of the body, such as “cneck, shoulders, pectorals, arms, armpits, anterior abdomen, pelvis, lumbar region, and glutes.
According to the National Public Prosecutor’s Office, after the operation, Zárate was taken to a room, where he was assisted by a nurse what You noticed something unusual in your drainage.
At that moment, they informed Lotocki, who ordered that Zárate return to the operating room, where he reopened one of the wounds.
After spending the night in pain and without being able to sleep, The patient decompensated on the morning of April 16 and was intubatedat the same time that clinic personnel contacted their social work, from which they sent an ambulance, whose doctors noticed the complexity of the condition and summoned a second ambulance.
At that time, andThe patient suffered cardiac arrest and died after they tried to resuscitate him; SAME intervened, which confirmed the death and reported the incident to the area police station.where Lotocki was delayed.
