The Managua Mayor’s Office made a “partial payment” of its debt to the Nicaraguan Social Security Institute (INSS) with four pieces of land that were confiscated from Victoria Cárdenas, wife of Juan Sebastián Chamorro, former presidential candidate and political prisoner of the Daniel dictatorship Ortega and Rosario Murillo, according to an official document from the municipality to which the digital site had access Reliable sources.
The Municipal Council of the Managua Mayor’s Office, through Resolution No. 81-2021, empowered the re-elected mayor of the capital, Reyna Rueda, to sign a “public deed of donation” in payment of the debt of the commune with the INSS . The lots delivered as payment to the institution are located in the Intermezzo del Bosque urbanization, an exclusive area of the Nicaraguan capital.
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“That the Mayor’s Office of Managua is the owner in domain and possession of four plots of land identified as Lot No. 44, 49, 94 and 45, located in the Urbanization Intermezzo del Bosque II Stage, according to Public Deed Testimony Number one (1) of forced sale of real estate”, reads the resolution of the Municipal Council of Managua.
In October 2020, Victoria María Lacayo Cabrera, mother-in-law of opposition figure Juan Sebastián Chamorro, received notice of seizure of her house, five lots from the Intermezzo del Bosque Real Estate and a water well that supplies the residential, allegedly for failing to comply with its obligations. with the Mayor of Managua.
According to the municipality, they owed him nine million 478 thousand córdobas in taxes on real estate. The commune alleges that between 2017 and 2019 the family member of the presidential candidate did not even present her income statement on the properties that belong to her and only benefited from the profits.
The judicial action against the wife and mother-in-law of Juan Sebastián Chamorro began on August 21, 2020, when Judge Isabel Castro Martínez issued an arrest and search warrant on the grounds of non-compliance with fiscal commitments with the Mayor’s Office of Managua.
The Sandinista judge Ramón Real Pérez dismissed “the opposition to the execution”, filed by the defense attorney of Intermezzo Real Estate and proceeded to execute the act described as “harassment and fiscal terrorism” by the then presidential candidate. According to those affected, the value of the seized assets amounts to 33 million córdobas, higher than what was demanded by the Mayor’s Office.
