Through a statement issued this past Tuesday, June 6, the authorities of the Archdiocesan Ministry inform directors of Catholic schools, priests and nuns that the Intendance of Private Centers of the Ministry of Education (MINED) will be communicating with the authorities of the centers, to notify that teachers who are beneficiaries of financial aid or subsidy, will receive their payment this Wednesday in the departmental delegations. In Managua they must be presented in the MINED districts, also starting this June 7.
The statement cites that the salary supplement for teachers, “will be assumed with the collection of monthly payments, because the accounts are still frozen” by the investigation process.
They also ask “to keep calm, hold on to prayer and wise prudence.”
The freezing of the bank accounts of the Catholic Church was ordered by the Daniel Ortega regime for alleged money laundering, the investigations have been ongoing since May 26, when a police statement was issued stating that the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic and other state institutions related to the government confirmed “criminal” movements of the accounts.
The Catholic hierarchy is silent about this police investigation and closure of bank accounts, however, ecclesiastical sources have reported that the government would have confiscated some 500,000 dollars that the Diocese of Estelí had, which would be used for the construction of a clinic.
Likewise, the sources detailed that the money was part of a loan made by the international organization Catholic Relief Services (CRS) since 2012.
The Sandinista regime maintains, through its propagandists, that the seized money is part of “money laundering” operations carried out by Catholic authorities “with the complicity” of bankers or workers of financial institutions.
The Catholic Church whistleblower, who recently spoke with Article 66, he trusted that the blocking of accounts would affect the functioning of the schools of the Dioceses because these instances will not have a way to pay the teacher and administrative payrolls of the schools. The religious confided that the activities of the church will be financed with the donations of the parishioner.
