The International Criminal Court (ICC) could have jurisdiction to try the still president of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), Dante Mossi, for having financed the Nicaraguan dictatorship, according to a conclusion reached by law students from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), of Argentina.
The jurist Darío Richarte, a professor at the UBA and one of the lawyers promoting the accusation before the Argentine justice for the crimes committed by the dictators Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo since April 2018, reported through his personal Twitter account that the CPI could indeed be competent to prosecute Mossi for having provided financing to the dictatorship from his position as president of CABEI.
Dante Mossi, an economist of Honduran nationality, assumed the presidency of CABEI in December 2018 and will leave that position in November of this year after the board of rectors of that institution decided not to re-elect him, due to international pressure pointing to the bank executive of being a financier of the Nicaraguan dictatorship and of having turned the bank into “a disaster.”
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Richarte recalled that Mossi is a Honduran national and that CABEI’s headquarters are in Honduras, and since that country is a signatory to the Rome Statute, which grants jurisdiction to the ICC in each State that adheres to it, that is enough merit for Learn about the facts that could be attributed to the outgoing president of the Central American bank.
The lawyer explains that Mossi can be attributed “criminal participation in the financing of the dictatorship”, from his position as president of the financial institution and that position can be classified as “accomplice, concealer or facilitator”.
These legal qualifications, the lawyer details, are included in article 25 of the Rome Statute and already have a history. “For example, in the judgment of the Sierra Leone court, in the brief of the Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda (Colombia) and in the report of the group of human rights experts on Nicaragua.”
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Richarte points out that the possibility that the ICC is competent to try Mossi is a discovery made by UBA law students who investigated the issue and who are committed to defending human rights.
Likewise, he clarified that for the moment it is a possibility that arises from the legal technical analysis of the facts, but that they continue to investigate to confirm it.
The possibility that Dante Mossi could face criminal responsibilities had already been warned before by the Costa Rican economist and former representative of his country at CABEI Ottón Solís.
In a recent interview with Article 66the Costa Rican economist described the administration of Dante Mossi at CABEI as “a disaster” and warned that if a complete audit was carried out in that institution, Mossi and other officials who have worked with him, could result in “criminal sanctions.”
