Medical expertise determined that the former senator can continue his health treatments from the Florida prison, where he is serving preventive detention.
The former senator of National Party (PN), Gustavo Penadés, must carry out the preventive detention of 180 days that corresponds to him in the jail, after medical examinations confirmed that the health conditions he suffers can be treated without problems from the prison.
Penadés will continue in the Florida jail despite his attempts to achieve house arrest citing the health problems he suffers from: diabetes and a heart condition – ischemic heart disease. This was determined by the Forensic Technical Institute (ITF) of the Judicial Branch in Montevideo, where he was transferred to evaluate his condition.
There, the former legislator accused of 22 sexual crimes against minors He was subjected to a medical interrogation by professionals, and then underwent a physical examination with the medical history in view. The medical tests concluded that, although the declared conditions do exist, these pathologies do not prevent him from serving preventive detention in confinement, while he can continue his treatments in prison.
The final decision will depend on the prosecutor Sexual Crimes Alicia Ghione and the criminal judge Marcela Vargas, who are leading the case against Penadés. However, it is possible that the former nationalist leader may finally continue his stay in the Florida prison, where the former head of presidential custody is also serving his sentence. Alejandro Astesiano.
Penadés, without defense
The possibility of spending 180 days—at least—in jail is not the only bad news that Penadés received after his indictment: his lawyers, Javier Vega and Francisco Quesadathey informed him yesterday that they will not continue representing the former senator before Justice as his lawyers.
The nationalist’s procedural situation is complex from the ground up, due to the 22 sexual crimes that were charged against him, enough for the entire Uruguayan political arc —including his co-religionists of the National Party, many of whom were also his friends—come out to disown him. To this, a new investigation is added in relation to the “procedural scam” that he would have set up to establish the hypothesis of his innocence, which already has the director of the exComcar, Carlos Taroco, accused.
Source: Ambito
