Bolivia Elects Interim Attorney General Who Vows to Restructure Prosecution Service
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Roger Mariaca, who served as head of the Public Prosecutor's Office from 2024 until his arrest on Wednesday, will be replaced by José Armando Urioste in an interim manner. Urioste has a broad career as judge and academic in the Beni department (northeast). "We are receiving an institution that demonstrates, by the events of this week, that it is totally tarnished by acts of corruption, stained by the unfortunate trajectory of colleagues," Uriost…
Roger Mariaca, who headed the Public Prosecutor's Office from 2024 until his arrest, will be temporarily replaced by José Armando Urioste
Morgan County Citizen
KTBSLA PEACE, Bolivia — Bolivia’s Legislative Assembly definitively suspended State Attorney General Roger Mariaca, who remains in detention and is being investigated for his alleged protection of drug trafficking, and chose attorney José Armando Urioste on Saturday as the...
Hours after Mariaca's arrest, the Prosecutor's Office appointed Luis Montaño, the institution's oldest official, as interim, but the Paz government ignored the appointment and announced that he would be arrested for usurping functions and obstructing
La Paz, Oct. 3 (EFE).- On Saturday, the Bolivian Ombudsman's Office urged the legislature to select "in the shortest possible time" a new highest authority in the Public Prosecutor's Office, following the appointment of an interim attorney general in response to the arrest and dismissal of Roger Mariaca, accused of alleged protection of drug trafficking. [...] The entry The Bolivian legislature dismisses the arrested attorney general and appoint…
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