2023-09-20 14:31:00
The First Crime Chamber of Río Cuarto sentenced Ignacio Martín, accused of illegally practicing medicine during the pandemic, to seven years in prison.
Order
The Prosecutor’s Office had requested a sentence of nine years in prison for the doctor de 21 year old accused of falsifying his license plate and who attended during the coronavirus pandemic under the Córdoba Emergency Operations Center (COE).
From the amount of the established sentence, it is clear that the court did not apply the figure of simple homicide due to possible intent, one of the charges that he had to face during the criminal process.
“I want to reiterate the apology that I made at all times during the trial to you, to the complaining party, to society in general. I do not have much more to say”expressed Martín when pronouncing the last words before the sentence was announced.
In addition, the Chamber sent the records to a Córdoba prosecutor’s office to investigate other possible responsibilities. “Ignacio Martín is not a person who was originally from the city of Río Cuarto. “He is not someone who has a habitual residence but rather arrived in a delegation with officials who also do not have a legal residence here,” explained prosecutor Pablo Jávega.
“I understand that the Chamber might have taken this into account and that it would have been in the Capital headquarters where he would have achieved his insertion into the emergency structure, I understand that the referral is due to this, to analyze whether there is any type of criminal responsibility within the structure of officials who made up that emergency committee,” held.
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Charges
Martin, who remains detained since February 4, 2021initially faced seven charges for the alleged commission of the crimes of “simple homicide due to possible fraud, serious injuries, illegal practice of medicine, use of a false private document, repeated qualified fraud, continued repeated ideological falsehood and qualified attempted fraud.
Of all the charges, the joint Prosecutor’s Office of Pablo Jávega and Rosario Fernández López left aside the fraud classified as attempted.
COE
Martín joined that organization as a volunteer through an agreement between the Red Cross, the UNC and the Government of the Province of Córdoba. Then in August 2020 he entered the Río Cuarto COE.
According to the researchfrom August of that year and at least until December treated patients with Covid under the orbit of authorities from the COE and the municipality of Río Cuarto.
Martín was accused not only of falsifying his professional registration, but also of falsifying his DNI number to appear older.
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When it became known that the accused did not have the title, the health ministry reported that “Having learned on December 22 (2020) that a male person who was volunteering at the Emergency Operations Center (COE) had adulterated documentation in order to carry out the illegal practice of medicine, we proceeded to carry out on the same day the corresponding criminal complaint”.
At the beginning of 2023 Justice rejected a request for release presented by Martín for which he continues to be detained in the Río Cuarto prison.
Internal photo credit: Courtesy of El Doce.
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