Through a screen, Former president Jeanine Áñez will hear the reading of her sentence to 10 years in prison by the First Anti-Corruption Sentencing Court of La Paz, which is carrying out the “Coup II” case. The reading is scheduled for eThis Wednesday at 3:00 p.m.
The reading of the sentence It also reaches former authorities of the Armed Forces and the Police, where the reasons for the determination regarding the conviction will be substantiated that receive these co-defendants.
According to ABI, the president of the Court, Germán Ramos, summoned the parties, both complainants and defendants, to the virtual audience (it will not be face-to-face, nor was it the trial) and will expose the arguments of the judicial authorities.
Although the verdict is not yet known in full, the The Public Ministry has already announced that it will appeal the convictionsince they ask for 15 years in prison for the former president, the same line as the Ministry of Government.
While on Áñez’s side, an appeal is also being refined, according to Carolina Ribera, daughter of the former president, who He announced that all resources will be exhausted to demonstrate the nullity of the trial and achieve freedom from the former authority.
On June 10, the Court reported that Áñez was sentenced to 10 years in prison. The judges assured that the evidence presented and provided in the oral trial was sufficient for the members of the Court to have “full conviction” about the participation and criminal responsibility of the accused; nevertheless, Not all Áñez’s arguments were taken into account and not all of his witnesses were called.
The sentence will be announced in a context in which the Special Rapporteur for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers of the United Nations, Diego García-Sayán, observed the ordinary trial against Jeanine Áñez for the ‘Coup II’ case and said that “Bolivian justice has the opportunity to make corrections that are necessary before an appeal or review resource, if it were presented”.
The rapporteur stated that “those who have exercised the presidency have the right to trial of responsibilitiesregardless of how his mandate arose”, referring to the former president.
Sentences in the Golpe II case
Former Commander of the Armed Forces, Williams Kaliman, and former Police Commander, Vladimir Yuri Calderón – both fugitives– were sentenced, like Áñez, to 10 years in prison.
While, the former commander of the Armed Forces, Jorge Elmer Fernández Toranzo, and the former commander of the Armed Forces, Sergio Orellana Centellas, were sentenced to four years in prison in the San Pedro prison.
Along these lines, the former commander of the Army, Pastor Mendieta, was sentenced to three years in prison and the former chief of the General Staff, Flavio Gustavo Arce, to two years in prison in the San Pedro prison. These last defendants are already in preventive detention.
Through a screen, Former president Jeanine Áñez will hear the reading of her sentence to 10 years in prison by the First Anti-Corruption Sentencing Court of La Paz, which is carrying out the “Coup II” case. The reading is scheduled for eThis Wednesday at 3:00 p.m.
The reading of the sentence It also reaches former authorities of the Armed Forces and the Police, where the reasons for the determination regarding the conviction will be substantiated that receive these co-defendants.
According to ABI, the president of the Court, Germán Ramos, summoned the parties, both complainants and defendants, to the virtual audience (it will not be face-to-face, nor was it the trial) and will expose the arguments of the judicial authorities.
Although the verdict is not yet known in full, the The Public Ministry has already announced that it will appeal the convictionsince they ask for 15 years in prison for the former president, the same line as the Ministry of Government.
While on Áñez’s side, an appeal is also being refined, according to Carolina Ribera, daughter of the former president, who He announced that all resources will be exhausted to demonstrate the nullity of the trial and achieve freedom from the former authority.
On June 10, the Court reported that Áñez was sentenced to 10 years in prison. The judges assured that the evidence presented and provided in the oral trial was sufficient for the members of the Court to have “full conviction” about the participation and criminal responsibility of the accused; nevertheless, Not all Áñez’s arguments were taken into account and not all of his witnesses were called.
The sentence will be announced in a context in which the Special Rapporteur for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers of the United Nations, Diego García-Sayán, observed the ordinary trial against Jeanine Áñez for the ‘Coup II’ case and said that “Bolivian justice has the opportunity to make corrections that are necessary before an appeal or review resource, if it were presented”.
The rapporteur stated that “those who have exercised the presidency have the right to trial of responsibilitiesregardless of how his mandate arose”, referring to the former president.
Sentences in the Golpe II case
Former Commander of the Armed Forces, Williams Kaliman, and former Police Commander, Vladimir Yuri Calderón – both fugitives– were sentenced, like Áñez, to 10 years in prison.
While, the former commander of the Armed Forces, Jorge Elmer Fernández Toranzo, and the former commander of the Armed Forces, Sergio Orellana Centellas, were sentenced to four years in prison in the San Pedro prison.
Along these lines, the former commander of the Army, Pastor Mendieta, was sentenced to three years in prison and the former chief of the General Staff, Flavio Gustavo Arce, to two years in prison in the San Pedro prison. These last defendants are already in preventive detention.
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