Convicted  of money laundering arising from the Odebrecht bribery scandal Raúl de Saint Malo, brother of former vice-president Isabel de Saint Malo.is still trying to exchange his five years behind bars sentence for community work.

He has filed  an Amparo of guarantees against the decision of a Superior Court of Justice, which revoked the benefit of community work in favor of jail  time

Supreme Court  judge  Cecilio Cedalise will have to decide whether to admit the appeal

On October 2, Compliance Judge Irma Arosemena granted the replacement of a prison sentence for one day a week community work to Raúl de Saint Malo, even though he had already been sentenced to jail in  March and had never spent a day behind bars.

On October 10, the Superior Court of Appeals revoked the replacement of the prison sentence With work at the Ancón Community Board that had been granted to Saint Malo

Judge Luis Carrasco, said at the time that there is no known case in which the prison sentence for money laundering is replaced by community work

De Saint Malo is serving his sentence at the El Renacer prison.