San Jose, Dec. 17 (Prensa Latina) Former Ombudsman Ofelia Taitelbaum, imprisoned in Costa Rica since October 2024 after serving a 7.5-year sentence for using a false document, will continue serving her sentence under house arrest.

A court order mandated that her incarceration be changed to house arrest, although she will be under electronic monitoring, the newspaper CR Hoy.com reported.

The change in her confinement status was in response to a request from the prisoner’s lawyers to the Sentence Enforcement Court.

Taitelbaum, who entered the Costa Rican women’s prison known as El Buen Pastor on October 25, 2024, is serving a 7.5-year sentence for 29 counts of using a false document.

The inmate surrendered to the courts in the metropolitan town of Goicoechea, after a court sentenced her and issued an arrest warrant against her in January of that same year.

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