Kim Kataguiri: So, depending on the crime, he flees for 5 years, 10 years, 15 years, then he can return and present himself to Justice or to a police chief as if nothing had happened, and say: 'Look, I really committed the crime, I was arrested, then I escaped.'
Kim Kataguiri: 'Because I stayed on the run long enough, I was successful in my escape, the State lost the right to punish me.'
What we are doing now is very simple.
Kim Kataguiri: You were convicted, you fled, you lose the right to prescription (the statute of limitations).
Kim Kataguiri: The crime will not prescribe while you are on the run, which is obvious; otherwise you are rewarding and encouraging the person to flee, because if he is successful in his escape and not caught within a certain period of time, which will depend on the crime he committed, he can return as if nothing had happened.