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Published Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Judge and court employee arrested
on suspicion of aiding people linked
to drug trafficking
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The agents of the Judicial Investigation Organization with agents of the Prosecutor's Office, arrested two men, one is a judge surnamed Mora-Sanchez and the other is a court employee, surnamed Acevedo-Diaz, for being suspected of the crime of Painful Facilitation for Drug Trafficking Impunity, that is to say, allegedly help suspects who are linked to drug trafficking cases.
According to the Prosecutor's Office report, both suspects work in the Golfito Court. They allegedly provided information to other drug trafficking suspected cases on the operations that were going to be carried out by judicial agents in the Golfito sector.
The Prosecutor's Office suspects that the judge intentionally doesn't impose the pre-trial jail preventive measure to people who were detained on suspicion of drug trafficking.
As part of the investigation, a significant increase in income for both officials was observed, the agents said. Allegedly the suspects received money in exchange for cooperating with gangs dedicated to drug trafficking.
At 7 am. Tuesday, the suspects' homes were raided, one located in the Bellavista community and another near the Golfito court. Also, the judicial agents raided the workplace of both suspects, to gather more information for the investigation.
In addition to arresting the suspects, the agents seized a vehicle owned by the court employee.
The two suspects were taken to the cells of the Public Ministry where they were interrogated by the judicial agents and after that, they must wait until a judge orders the pre-trial measures against them.
The judicial agents call on the population to report any suspicion of corruption of public employees linked to drug trafficking to the confidential line 800-8000-645, where there are bilingual agents who can answer calls in English or Spanish.
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