Sentence for lawyer in free exercise for influence peddling ratified
FGE PRESS BULLETIN Nº 730-DC-2021
Riobamba (Chimborazo), August 02, 2021.- The judges of the Criminal Chamber of the Provincial Court of Justice of Chimborazo ratified the sentence of six years and eight months in prison for Édisson Gonzalo RM, as the direct author of the crime of influence peddling.
The conviction also confirmed the payment of a fine of ten unified basic salaries and a comprehensive reparation of $ 144,000 in favor of the victim.
At the hearing to appeal the sentence, the prosecutor Patricio Parco pointed out that – in the first instance and beyond any reasonable doubt – the Prosecutor’s Office demonstrated before the Court that the one already sentenced, between February and March 2015, offered to help a person deprived of freedom in his criminal process, arguing that he could “influence” it, through an alleged friendship with a judge.
Édisson Gonzalo RM asked his victim for $ 150,000, arguing that $ 80,000 would be to set bail and $ 70,000 for the alleged judicial official: the defendant received $ 140,000; however, the “help” offered never came.
The documentary expertise of the prison entry record books, the audio and video expertise of the security cameras of the Paseo Shopping de Riobamba, certified copies of the judicial process in which the defendant intervened requesting surety, the receipt delivered by the The woman’s family was sentenced, several testimonies from people who provided the money, the report of recognition of the scene of the events, among other evidence, demonstrated the materiality of the crime and the responsibility of the sentenced person.
Legal information
The crime of influence peddling is typified in article 286 of the Comprehensive Organic Penal Code (COIP) and although it determines a penalty of three to five years of imprisonment, the aggravating circumstance of article 47, numeral 9, of the same was applied. legal body: taking advantage of the victim’s personal conditions.
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