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Nicaraguan police accuse Catholic Church of money laundering and ordered Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes to present documents showing the movement of the bank accounts of the intervening dioceses. The
Nicaraguan police accuse Catholic Church of money laundering and ordered Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes to present documents showing the movement of the bank accounts of the intervening dioceses.
The statement of the National Police says that on Friday, May 19, they were informed “about illegal money management activities and funds in bank accounts belonging to persons convicted of high treason”, whose names he did not specify.
“Police have launched investigations that have led to the discovery of hundreds of thousands of dollars hidden in bags located at facilities belonging to the country’s dioceses,” the agency said, without specifying the amount or location.
Subsequently, he reported “the findings and investigations to the appropriate authorities, who in turn launched their own investigations in accordance with the law to detect and reverse illegal acts committed by persons associated with these dioceses.”
Nicaraguan Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes. (Photo: EFE)
The results of the investigation confirmed illegal theft of resources from bank accounts which were legally ordered to be frozen, as well as other illegal activities that are still being investigated as part of the money laundering network found in the dioceses of various departments of Nicaragua,” he added.
According to the police, the Attorney General’s Office, the Banking Authority and the Financial Analysis Group “confirmed criminal movements with funds that entered the country illegally for the diocese and are being investigated, and criminal proceedings have been initiated for all these reasons.” “crimes”.
He pointed out that the Banking Authority asked the Bishops’ Conference of Nicaragua and the head of the Nicaraguan Church, Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, “to present documents showing the movement of the bank accounts of the dioceses so that this is respected.” always in accordance with the laws of the country, avoiding committed illegal acts.
“The progress of the investigation is kept up to date and efforts are being made to clarify and report everything that is relevant to this anomalous situation that has arisen as a result of acts of treason already tried and committed by characters who, as politicians, have criminally violated all the legal, financial and social systems of the state and the Nicaraguan people.”
The police said that “inquiries and investigations continue to provide transparency in the operation and financial management of these institutions.”
Arrest of Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando José Alvarez Lagos.
Previously, church sources reached EFE that Daniel Ortega’s government froze bank accounts at least three of the nine dioceses of the Church Catholic.
The dioceses with their limited bank accounts are the dioceses of Managua, led by Cardinal Brenes, and the dioceses of Matagalpa and Esteli, in charge of imprisoned Bishop Rolando Alvarezwho last February was sentenced to more than 26 years in prison for crimes considered “high treason”.
Two days ago the police said they were investigating priest Jaime Montesinos, the parish priest of the diocese, headed by Bishop Alvarez, for committing acts that undermine the independence, sovereignty and self-determination of the nation.
He is also investigating two other priests for “administrative matters” of the dissolved Cáritas Diocesana de Estelí in northern Nicaragua, which is also run by Alvarez.
Relations between the Ortega government and the Catholic Church are now going through moments of great tension, marked exile and imprisonment of priests, prohibition of religious activities and suspension of their diplomatic relations.
Pope Francis called the Sandinista government a “brute dictatorship” in an interview information, pointing to the “imbalance of the man who leads” the Central American country. (EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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