Zulema Sucre, former Vice Minister of Social Development will face a hearing on August 20 to request a replacement sentence for the three years imprisonment she received when she was convicted of the crime against the public administration (embezzlement) to the detriment of the entity where she worked.

The former official was sentenced to 36 months in prison, after her assigned  bodyguards  denounced her for wanting to force them to do tasks that did not correspond to their role, such as walking the former vice minister's pet dog called "Gucci."

Sucre's legal defense filed a cassation appeal on May 30, 2021, but it was not admitted by the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court.