The former director of the National Lottery, Luis Maisichell Dicent is being sent back to trial after the state prosecutor’s appeal was accepted in court. On March 2023, a court had found him not guilty for the so-named Operation 13. If found guilty in the re-trial, he could face up to 12 years in jail.
The prosecuting body also requested that an eight-year sentence be handed down for Edison Perdomo Peralta and that the agreements with some defendants in the case be respected.
Judges Rosalba Garib, Teófilo Andújar and Delio Germán are hearing the appeal filed by the prosecutors.
Operation 13 is the case that made headlines when a video of the calling of the lottery on 1 May 2021 revealed a scam. Accusations charged that the fraud caused losses of RD$500 million.
Wilson Camacho, of the Anti-Corruption Agency of the Attorney General Office (PEPCA), had said in March 2023 that the PEPCA would appeal. He said it is impossible that the fraudulent lottery call could have happened without the participation of Maisichell Dicent.
At the time, the Second Collegiate Court of the National District dismissed the former administrator of the National Lottery, Luis Maisichell Dicent, from the Operation 13 case yet sentenced the other defendants to seven, six and five years in prison.
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15 January 2024