The Security and Drug Trafficking Commission approved this Thursday a substitute text to file 23,575 “Law that punishes the crime of lending money drop by drop” through a motion via article 137.
Presented by Representative Gloria Navas, president of the legislative body, this new wording had unanimous support.
12 motions were presented to the project, all seen in the commission session this Thursday, and now it is ready to be discussed and voted on in the Plenary. It could be seen next Monday.
This is one of the initiatives included in the list of priorities that came from the work tables of the authorities of the three powers of the Republic.
The approved substitute text has to do with article 214 bis on “Extortion collection” and which defines prison sentences and the reasons for which they can be imposed.
This is what the approved article says:
“Anyone who uses threats and intimidation personally, through third parties and through any means of communication, in order to force or oblige a debtor or their family members will be punished with a prison sentence of four to eight years. to the payment of the debt or credit obligation that has been granted.”
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Aggravating
The penalty would increase from five to ten years in prison in the following cases:
- The threat or intimidation is directed at a minor, elderly person or person with some vulnerable situation or condition.
- If the act is committed by two or more people
- If the perpetrator or perpetrators physically or psychologically attack the victim, or deprive them of their freedom
- When the act is committed with weapons or there is damage to property
“In cases where the crime is committed under the parameters established for organized crime in accordance with current regulations, the previous penalty will be eight to fifteen years in prison,” he adds.
Two more motions were approved that include causes, mentioned above, to define a penalty for the crime of extortion when collecting a so-called drop-by-drop loan.
The other nine motions presented were rejected.
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Courtesy.
It also advanced
Along with that file, the Commission saw motions 137 of 23,690, which has to do with the modernization of communications interventions. The deputies rejected all of them.
The proposal defines the authorization of the courts of justice to intervene in oral, written or other communications to clarify investigations into crimes such as: extortion, extortionate kidnapping, aggravated corruption, aggravated pimping, manufacturing, production or dissemination of pornography and sexual crimes against minors.
Also in human trafficking, migrant smuggling and organ trafficking; aggravated homicide, simple homicide, femicide, genocide, terrorism and the crimes provided for in Law No. 7786 Law on Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances, Drugs for Unauthorized Use, Related Activities, Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism.
“The ordered intervention will be authorized for a maximum period of up to four months, except in cases of extreme seriousness or difficult investigation, in which the Judge, through a well-founded resolution, orders an extension,” the text says.
2024-02-29 17:13:22
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