Prosecutor Sandra Gutiérrez said that former President Evo Morales and the rest of the accused have been notified about the investigation into human trafficking without any violation of their rights.
The Bolivian Prosecutor’s Office will issue an arrest warrant for the former president Evo Morales declare before the Public Ministry within the investigation that is being followed in a case of human trafficking and rape.
This was announced by prosecutor Sandra Gutiérrez, this Thursday, October 10.
“What corresponds is that, to issue the arrest warrant since they (Morales and the other investigated) have been duly notified without any violation of any of their rights,” said Gutiérrez, the departmental prosecutor of the southern region of Tarija, where The case is being investigated, according to reports EFE.
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Former President Morales denounced that the Government of Luis Arce “is forcing a criminal process by inventing accusations, bending the laws and with the complicity of justice hitmen they intend to arrest us and end our lives. The objective is to behead the Bolivian popular movement.
Morales is being investigated for the relationship he had with a 15-year-old teenager between 2014 and 2016. The former president did not attend the summons this Thursday and that is why the arrest measure was announced.
The former president’s lawyer, Jorge Pérez, appeared on his behalf and presented a memorial justifying the absence of the accused, and denouncing violation of due process. According to the lawyer, the process should be carried out in Cochabamba and not in Tarija, as ordered by a judge from Santa Cruz, the media reported. The Times.
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