February 6, 2023, 7:29 AM
February 6, 2023, 7:29 AM
The former Vice Minister of the Interior Regime and Police Nelson Cox (MAS) accused the Minister of Government, Eduardo del Castillo, of lying and presenting as new the money deposits made in 2019 by Luis Fernando Camacho, then president of the Civic Committee, to hierarchs of the Bolivian Air Force (FAB). He attributes this fact to a political calculation and an alleged protectionism to the now governor for not previously presenting this alleged evidence in the so-called coup d’état case.
For its part, the defense of former FAB commander Gonzalo Terceros maintained that these deposits cannot ber used in the hit case I because they are already “res judicata” in the coup d’état II case.
On January 4, when the governor of Santa Cruz was serving five days in preventive detention, the Minister of Government exposed the banking transactions that Camacho carried out during the political crisis of November 2019. According to the detail provided by the minister, the movements in the account Camacho bank, between November 5 and December 7, 2019, reach at least Bs 4.5 million. There are also other deposits after November 10.
“This last testimony that the Minister of Government has taken about the fact that Luis Fernando Camacho has carried out some transactions was known in 2020, but he just took out those bank moves. The ASFI says that it had passed it; lie, He already had that intelligence job in 2020, I know. In 2021 we had the intelligence work signed off,” said Cox, who left office in 2021.
For ex-authority, from the moment the deposit report was known until the January 4, the date these documents are made public“there was a strange pause in the investigation because there is a protection management.”
He noted that in the coup II case, this information was already collected under fiscal requirements. “Simply because of a political calculation they have not wanted to give it more and also with this protection the minister The Government does not want to account for all the others who have been behind it, ”he assured without giving further details. He said that Minister Del Castillo will have to render an account later.
“The data that we have exhibited to the Bolivian people is a minuscule part of all the investigation of financial movements that occurred in the 2019 administration (and) obviously The main person under investigation for these crimes is Mr. Camacho,” said the minister on January 8.
After these statements, the lawyer for General Terceros, Eusebio Vera, expressed his surprise at the time in which it was disclosed information that has already been investigated and judged within of the coup d’état II case that prosecuted the events between January 11 and 12.
According to Del Castillo’s report, Camacho made a deposit to then General Jorge Terceros, who acted as an intermediary for some deposits to guarantee the rental of a plane and gasoline for the transfer of legislature parliamentarians.
“What the Minister points out has no connection with the coup I case because the events that occurred up to the resignation of former President Evo Morales are being investigated. The deposit to my client occurred on November 12, 2019 and the minister erroneously points out that it was to carry out the coup d’état. It was later and the object of that deposit was ordered and channeled by the then General of the Armed Forces, Williams Kaliman”, he assured.
After knowing these deposits, the Ministry of Government requested an extension of the complaint against Camacho for the crime of active bribery.
But the judge 10th. of Criminal Instruction, Armando Zeballosin charge of the coup d’état I case, decided to decline jurisdiction and refer it to an anti-corruption court.
