This Saturday, the Mayor’s Office of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, through its spokesman, Bernardo Montenegro, said that Angelica Sosaformer interimalcaldesa, It is still processed In the case called ‘Items Ghost’, in which the Pedal of at least five million dollars to public coffers.
Yesterday, Sosa’s lawyer, Arturo Heredia, reported that The La Paz Prosecutor’s Office rejected one of the complaints against the former mayor of the municipality cross in the framework of the aforementioned case, a decision that considers sufficient for ask for the extinction of all criminal processes against him.
Heredia explained that the resolution, dated the December 2, 2024 and notified a week ago, It was issued after a “exhaustive” analysis of the documentation presented by the Mayor’s Office.
According to the lawyer, the Public Ministry concluded that the former mayor “It has no participation ”in the facts reported. “All cases were armed by the Mayor’s Office. There is not a single test so that a day would have been a day. This is an abuse and an outrage,” he said.
For his part, Sosa, who was two years in preventive detention in jail, reiterated his innocence and described his situation as a “political persecution” promoted by current Mayor Jhonny Fernández. “I am innocent, I said it from day one. Maltrate and declare a person guilty without the presumption of innocence is something that repudiates and should not happen again, ”he said.
However, the mayor’s spokesman said Peace resolution does not imply that Sosa has been separated from judicial processes. “That is absolutely false. She is still processed in the ‘items ghost’, in the case ‘contracts’ (irregular), in the ‘loan’ case and For crimes as legitimacy of illicit profits And illicit enrichment, ”he said.
Montenegro accused Sosa’s defense of resorting to “Chicanas” to delay judgments and reiterated that the municipal objective is “Recover the hundreds of millions of stolen Bolivians to the municipal coffers ”.
The ‘items ghost’ case, which investigates alleged irregular contracts and payments to non -existent officials in the Mayor’s Office of Santa Cruz, continues in progress in different courts of the country. Sosa’s defense intends that peace resolution be applied to all processes under the principle of unity of the Public Ministry, while the accusing party insists that each cause is independent and must continue its course.
