The Attorney General of the Republic (PGR) called the occupants of some houses to their offices, who have been illegally confiscated by the regime to a group of citizens declared “stateless”.
“Third parties who are occupying said confiscated properties must go to the offices of this Office of the Attorney General of the Republic, to formalize their occupational status with the State of Nicaragua,” reported the PGR in a press release published on Wednesday, December 1. March.
“The Attorney General of the Republic of Nicaragua, as the legal representative of the State, refers to the confiscated properties, based on judicial resolutions issued by Criminal District judges, which were made known by the Court of Appeals of the Managua Circumscription , on February 15 of this year, ”he explained.
That day, the dictatorship stripped 94 Nicaraguans of their nationalitywho were also convicted, expropriated, and declared fugitives, although the only thing that was known about their “trials” was the conviction.
Among the group of citizens, who also declared “traitors to the country”are the Cervantes Prize winner Sergio Ramírez, the writer Gioconda Belli, the Auxiliary Bishop of Managua Silvio José Báez, the human rights defender Vilma Núñez, the director of CONFIDENTIAL, Carlos Fernando Chamorro and his wife Desirée Elizondo, and dozens of citizens critical of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
The judgment orders “the immobilization and confiscation in favor of the State of Nicaragua of all the real estate and companies that the defendants have registered in their favor, either in their personal capacity, or of legal persons or companies in which they participate as partners, to answer for the crimes committed.”
Case of the “Amazonia” housing complex
Until now, neither the Nicaraguan Police nor the Property Administration nor the Attorney General of the Republic have offered details on the confiscation of the real estate of the 94 denationalized.
The only known case is the confiscation of 16 apartments located in the “Amazonia” housing complex., executed by the PGR on Friday, February 17. That same day, the Special Operations Directorate (DOEP) of the Police raided the home of the opposition members Sofía Montenegro and Azáhalea Solís, located in the same residential area in Reparto San Juan. Both are part of the 94 declared “stateless”.
The owners of the 16 apartments were summoned to an interview at the Attorney General’s Office, to notify them of the surprising dispossession of their properties at the hands of the State. A PGR official verbally informed the owners that the houses —which have belonged to them for more than 30 years— now belong to the State, despite the fact that there is no previous process or claim that justifies the appropriation of the properties.
The options that the PGR gave the inhabitants of “Amazonia” were to pay a monthly rent of 500 dollars to continue in their homes, or to vacate the apartments.
In its note, the PGR indicates that the call is for “persons (natural or legal) who are in use and enjoyment of said assets – through different legal figures, such as: lease, usufruct or other similar ones.”
“In accordance with article 167 of our Political Constitution and article 12 of Law 260, Organic Law of the Judiciary of the Republic of Nicaragua: ‘Judicial decisions are of unavoidable compliance for State authorities, organizations and natural persons or legal’”, according to the Attorney General’s Office.
