The Ortega-Murillo dictatorship ordered the reform of Law 977, Law Against Money Laundering, Financing of Terrorism and Financing of the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (ALA/CFT/CFP) and purged the commission that directs it. appeal to the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) and the National Microfinance Commission (Conami), thus eliminating all judicial control over money laundering and confirming at the same time the purge initiated by the Ortega-Murillo couple against the Judiciary .
The deputies of the National Assembly at the service of the Sandinista dictatorship approved Law 1201, through which they reform article 6 of Law 977, “Law Against Money Laundering, Financing of Terrorism and Financing of the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction”, according to the Official Gazette of this Friday, April 26.
Article 6 of the Law, before the modification, defined the members of the Council that governs the Anti-Laundering instance, which included, among other institutions, the (CSJ), as an institution that guarantees the application of justice in cases that They are responsible for the regulation against money laundering and corruption, and the National Microfinance Commission (Conami), the entity that functions as the “superintendence” of microfinance institutions.
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Law 1201, or the Reform Law to Reform Law 977, in its article one, after the reform, will read as follows: «The National Anti-Money Laundering Council, Against the Financing of Terrorism and Against the Financing of Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (AML/CFT/CFP) which will hereinafter be called the “Council”».
Thus, according to this reform, the Council is now made up of a general coordinator, a position that will be held by the director of the Financial Analysis Unit (UAF). In addition, the Coordination Council is made up of the Superintendent of Banks and Other Financial Institutions, the Attorney General of the Republic, the president of the Central Bank of Nicaragua (BCN), the Minister of Finance and Public Credit and the Attorney General. of the Republic.
The director general of the National Police, the minister advisor to the President of the Republic for Security Affairs and the vice minister of the Interior are also members of the body. The CSJ no longer appears.
Ortega dismantles the Judiciary
For the economist and opposition leader Juan Sebastian Chamorrothe reform to the anti-money laundering surveillance body ordered by the dictatorship, clearly denotes that the objective was to purge the Judiciary from that council and incorporate two figures committed to repression and those most loyal to Ortega.
Likewise, Chamorro maintains that the elimination of the highest court of justice from the Anti-Laundering Council confirms “the purge” of which the Court is being subjected. And, in the case of microfinance, Ortega eliminated the little oversight that remained there.
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Likewise, the former political prisoner banished by the dictatorship draws attention to the fact that Ortega orders the inclusion in the Anti-Laundering Council specifically of two of his political operators who are also repressive agents of the most loyal: the presidential advisor for Security Affairs and former deputy director of the Police, Horacio Rocha, “in charge of police investigations,” warns Chamorro.
He adds that the other person of concern is the vice minister of the Interior, now general commissioner, Luis Cañas, who is accused of being a “jailer of Nicaraguans.”
The economist analyzes that the reform carried out by the dictatorship “eliminates all types of microfinance and judicial supervision and “is more consolidated as a repressive apparatus to accuse activists.”
