Judge Ileana Pérez, president of the Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ), was transferred to the Directorate of Judicial Assistance, in Managua, known as “El Nuevo Chipote”. Pérez was stripped of her position before the constituency of the departments of Rivas and Granada, which could mean that her regime subjected her to an investigation.
On Tuesday, October 18, the official faithful to the presidential couple was taken to the renowned torture center. Pérez had been removed last weekend from her administrative positions in the two departments. The magistrate had been in that position for two years, her main function was the cases that came to the Civil Court.
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A source who confirmed the arrest to the newspaper La Prensa explained that several Sandinista magistrates were meeting Wednesday morning in the office of magistrate Gerardo Arce, brother of Bayardo Arce, presidential adviser on economic affairs to Daniel Ortega.
Last Friday, the regime also ordered the arrest of the CSJ spokesman, Roberto Larios Meléndez, for the crime of conspiracy to undermine national integrity. The state worker and maximum defender of the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship was arrested at dawn on October 15 in his house and transferred to Chipote.
According to judicial sources, Larios was transferred on Tuesday afternoon to the Managua Courts where an Ortega judge assigned him a court-appointed attorney.
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According to the national media, the arrest of the also director general of the Communications area of the CSJ originated after leaking information to an independent media outlet that is in exile. It is also presumed that Larios maintained communication with former magistrate Rafael Solís. The Nicaraguan regime accused him of “treason against the fatherland.”
Lawyer Yader Morazán affirmed that within the CSJ there have been many dismissals, more than those that have been made public and at all levels, as well as many resignations of people who “have fallen into disgrace for specific reasons.”
