Defense of Constantin Dumitru, one of the two accused Atrium millionaire robberyHe asked the Madrid court to testify from prison. Cáceres is due for a hearing on October 18. Thus, in this case, too, her lawyer Sylvia Córdoba assures this newspaper that she requested from Criminal Court No. 8 that Dumitru not be transferred and interrogated via videoconference.
In this case, too, he sits on the bench in connection with the theft of luxury bottles. He is accused of stealing 6,000 euros of whiskey from a liquor store in the Salamanca area.. This accusation added to the media case is prior to the alleged events at the Atrium.
In the hotel case in Cáceres, the prosecution conviction for forced robbery in specified things with a maximum sentence of six years. In this previous case, they are also demanding a prison sentence for theft. The Criminal Code provides for a prison sentence of up to 18 months if the stolen item exceeds 400 euros, this presumption far exceeds and there is no further aggravating circumstance. The difference between both crimes is that no force or intimidation is used.
That way, if the court grants the defense’s request, Dumitru won’t have to move from prison in Cáceres, the prison headquarters next to Priscila Lara Guevara, the second defendant in this media robbery, as they were transferred. To Cáceres for questioning in early August.
The two alleged perpetrators were arrested in October 2021 following police monitoring in Europe, six months after the events occurred. They were seen trying to cross the Croatian border in July.. The court requested his transfer to Spain, which took place two weeks later. After landing in Madrid, they were transferred to the Cáceres courts, where they were interrogated in the custody of the National Police. Hours later, the judge ordered that he be placed in temporary prison without bail, citing the high risk of escape.
The defense appealed the argument, but eventually the County Court ruled in their favour, and kept them in prison on a plea on the same terms.