US EditionBolivian Justice Orders Ex-Minister Deported From the u.s. to Stay in Pretrial Detention · Global Voices
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Murillo Is Already in San Pedro Prison: Judge Ordered Pre-Trial Detention in the “Gases Brasil” Case
LA PEACE, 6 Sep (NOMADA NEWS). – Former government minister Arturo Murillo was transferred to San Pedro prison by decision of the Sixth Judgment Court of La Paz following the precautionary hearing in the so-called “gases Brasil” cases, in which he ordered six months of pretrial detention. The former government minister is accused of legitimizing illicit profits and economic damage to the State. At the precautionary hearing, Murillo’s defense law…
Former Bolivian minister Arturo Murillo was admitted on Saturday afternoon to a prison in La Paz after a court ordered him to remain in pretrial detention. The decision was made two days after the former official was deported from the United States, where he served a two-and-a-half-year sentence behind bars on charges of money laundering and collecting bribes, the same cases for which he was tried in Bolivia.
In the country he is accused, among other things, of using his position in 2019 to facilitate purchases at excessive prices of tear gas
His admission occurred after the hearing of precautionary measures, in which a judge ordered his pretrial detention for six months in this case.
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