Bad news for Daniel Sancho’s economy, who risks his life in Thailand, where the Prosecutor’s Office asks him for the death penalty for considering him the premeditated author of the death of the Colombian plastic surgeon Edwin Arrieta. And it is that The lawyers of the aesthetic doctor’s family presented this Friday a request for compensation of 30 million bats (about 760,000 euros) before the Samui court, where the trial against Rodolfo Sancho’s son takes place.
The Thai co-accusation lawyers, Mettapon Suwancarern and Lak Wanin, explained to EFE that this is an amount calculated in relation to the economic damage that Arrieta’s death has caused to his parents, who depended on him. The request, which was already made in the first session of the trial on April 9, was resubmitted today with the translated documentation requested by the judge before the deadline for accusations closes next Tuesday.
The amount estimated as compensation by the Thai lawyers It is almost double the calculation made by the Ospina Abogados firm, which represents the Arrietas in Spain and which put it at 410,000 euros. (about 16 million bats). The Thai lawyers acknowledged to EFE that the amount had been increased due to the possibility that it would be contested by the defense and reduced by the judge.
In this sense, Juan Gonzalo Ospina told EFE today by telephone that the family maintains its claim for the initial amount revealed in March, which has been calculated taking into account the losses and expenses that the death of the surgeon, 44 years old, had assumed his surroundings. Ospina also considered that the calculation of the lawyers in Thailand, who act as a co-accusation along with the Prosecutor’s Office, is hypothetical, since Sancho is insolvent and has no intention of compensating. In this sense, the Spanish lawyer said that what the family wants is for justice to be done.
Arrieta’s parentsAna Marcela Arteaga and Leovaldo José Arrieta, 76 years old and who will not testify, since the judge denied their request that they do so by videoconference, receive about 900 euros a month for their expenses from their son, and since his death they have been left in a situation of povertyaccording to the claim of the family, to which he had access.
Statement of the lawyers
For its part, regarding the most formal part of the process in which Daniel Sancho is being tried in Thailand, Today the first two lawyers who represented Sancho Gracia’s grandson in the Asian country and three interpreters who assisted him declared in their statements as part of the Prosecutor’s witnesses. These five statements end the last session of the second week of the oral trial.
The first to testify was public defender Chutiya Promrak, which represented Sancho while he was detained at the Phangan Island police station. After her, the lawyer Anan Chuayprabat, hired by the accused’s fatherthe actor Rodolfo Sancho, and who defended the Spaniard for a month since he was brought to justice on August 7 on the nearby island of Samui, where he has remained in provisional prison.
The accused testified before the Police on two occasions with two different lawyers. Today is about asking them and the interpreters if Sancho fully understood what he was declaring.said today at the entrance to the court the lawyer Apirchat Srinual, who represents the young Spaniard in the trial.
Anan previously confirmed to EFE that the Court summoned him at the request of the prosecutor to testify on April 19 in order to make clarifications about the police process. The Thai lawyer, hired at the time through the Bangkok law office of Spaniard Fernando Oca, acknowledged that it is not a normal decision for the Prosecutor’s Office to call defense lawyers to testify, although he has to attend due to legal imperative.
Both Promrak and Anan are prohibited from revealing any details of the conversations maintained with his client, by virtue of professional secrecy.
The three translators who assisted Sancho also plan to testify in today’s session. during police interrogations.
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