Carlos Mattos is hospitalized at home: the court ordered his transfer

He Barranquilla Superior Court ordered to transfer the businessman carlos mattosfound guilty of bribery of judges, to his home to receive home hospitalization, given the delicate state of health in which he is. The court argued that this decision was taken to protect the businessman’s fundamental rights to health, life, human dignity and integrity.

In order to “protect the fundamental rights to health, life, human dignity and integrity of Mr. Carlos José Mattos Barrero, it is taken as a special transitional measure to protect his fundamental rights to order the director of the prison El Bosque de Barranquilla transfer to the convict to receive an extension of hospitalization at home ordered by his attending physicians for the time they determine,” reads the decision of the Superior Court of Barranquilla.

According to information from Week, Mattos’ transfer to his home in Barranquilla has already taken place, as confirmed by Inpec.

In the decision of the Superior Court of Barranquilla, we can also read that “the protective measures deemed appropriate for the safety and custody of the detainee will be provided. Of all the above, records will be left in the records of the establishment and will be communicated to the competent judicial authorities.

Mattos was hospitalized at Clinic of the Assumption of Barranquilla since January 14. Then, on January 25, he was sent to an intensive care unit (ICU) at the Asunción de Barranquilla clinic due to serious health complications.

At this moment Jesus YepesMattos’s lawyer, assured that despite the fact that the businessman underwent intensive treatments to improve his health, he suffered a fall in the Bosque Prisonof the Atlantic capital, which left him with a knee injury, then had to undergo surgery for vertigo problems, for which he again needed specialist care.

“He has also been exposed to certain medical, psychological, psychiatric conditions and above all to heart problems, which have brought him in recent times under emergency transfers and intensive care,” the lawyer said.

Mattos’ health problems have been recurring since January 5, when he had to be admitted to an intensive care unit at the Caribbean Clinic due to coronary problems, he was discharged on January 14. This time he was admitted to the clinic in Asunción due to the same complications.

As the station learned On the radio, the controversial businessman has an acute coronary syndrome type AMI SEST; that is, syncope of probable cardiogenic origin. Added to this are the multiple diseases he was diagnosed with, such as prostate cancer.

Mattos was found guilty of bribing two Republican judges to issue court rulings in his favor regarding precautionary measures that allowed him to continue selling Korean-branded vehicles. hyundai in Colombia, in the midst of a dispute with this company.

Currently, he has to pay a prison sentence for these events, but due to his critical state of health, the defense of the businessman, through a guardianship action, has requested the measure of house by prison.

In November 2022, Mattos was found guilty of paying bribes to officials and employees of the judiciary. The investigation revealed that the businessman had paid 700 million pesos to judge Reynaldo Huertas, head of the Sixth Municipal Civil Court of Bogotá, to favor him in his business.

He was also sentenced to five years and 10 months in prison for bribes of 100 million pesos he paid to former judge Ligia del Carmen Hernández.