The Prosecutor’s Office ordered to freeze accounts and write down assets of the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Israel Huaytari

One of the first measures was to inform the Third Anti-Corruption Investigative Judge that the preventive annotation of the assets and freezing of accounts of four people was ordered. one of them the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Israel Huaytari, because an investigation was already underway for legitimation of illicit gains.

“Resolution was issued Preventive Annotation and Account Freezing at the national level to the Supervisory Authority of the financial system ‘ASFI’ No. 01/2024 dated January 17, 2024, in order to proceed with the freezing of accounts,” states the tax requirement and describes the names of Raúl CP , Rolando GTA, Zulema CP and Israel HM

In January of this year The Forensic Investigations Unit (UIF) presented a report to the prosecutor’s office of La Paz requesting the initiation of investigations against four people, since then several police proceedings have been carried out and tax demands have been issued.

However, this Friday morning the departmental prosecutor of La Paz William Alave reported that he received the case ‘a month and a half’ ago and almost immediately those involved who live in Santa Cruz presented an objection to jurisdiction due to territoriality, so the judge decided to send the case to this region.

Prosecutor Alave’s data do not coincide with the prosecutors’ memorials, since according to them, The UIF complaint arrived on January 11 of this year. On January 30, the prosecutor informed the judge that the preventive annotation of the assets and the freezing of the accounts had been ordered.

“In all cases, as a protocol, we pass it in a sealed envelope to the analysis unit. and what the unit of analysis does is refer to the prosecutor – we have two in this case, two prosecutors for legitimation of profits – the case is opened and they are the ones who carry it out, by protocol we do not know the detailed report of the investigations,” Alave alluded when asked about the reasons for the investigation.

According to the sworn statement presented by the president of the deputies before the State Comptroller General’s Office (CGE), in September 2023, declared being the owner of 10 assets; a total of Bs 605,350 of assets; debts of Bs 2.4 million and income of Bs 294,216.

All State officials, including national representatives, receive their salaries at through Banco Unión, which means that this entity had to freeze Huaytari’s salaries, although he reiterated again and again that he was never notified with this case.