The interim government of Boliviafiled a new complaint against the former president on Thursday Evo Morales, this time for crimes like rape and human trafficking following a alleged relationship with a minor.
The acting Deputy Minister of Transparency, Guido Melgar, pointed out that the judicial presentation was made by virtue of the appearance of images of a young woman accompanying Morales when she was a minor and he was president.
“As the Ministry of Justice we are going to be faithful observers and coadjuvants of this process and that this issue is clarified. If all the information that is documented in videos, audios and messages is true, we are going to request that the maximum penalty be imposed on Mr. Evo Morales Ayma “, stressed the official.
The young woman, known as NM and who is currently 19 years old, He was 14 when he allegedly began to accompany Morales, according to the agency EFE.
The Ministry of Justice and Institutional Transparency, through the Plurinational Victim Assistance Service (SEPDAVI), filed a complaint against former President Evo Morales Ayma for the crimes of rape and trafficking and trafficking. pic.twitter.com/oMQc4yp9as
– Ministry of Justice and Institutional Transparency (@MinJusticiaBol) August 20, 2020
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Melgar assured that it was already presented through the Plurinational Victim Assistance Service (SEPDAVI), in an appearance before the media in La Paz in which he did not show any registration document of the criminal complaint.
“From now on, it is the Public Ministry and the other institutions that have to do with the protection of women, children and adolescents, which should already materialize the corresponding criminal process,” he warned.
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The Ministry of Justice of the interim government received anonymous complaints, for which it began investigations days ago. The deputy minister indicated that NM’s whereabouts are unknown, but there is evidence that his relatives They “entered and left” Argentina, where Morales is and where the girl would have been according to photographs and videos on social networks.
Melgar also cited the arrest of a sister of the young woman for the alleged irregular possession of a state-owned vehicle. In this procedure, according to the official, a phone with photographs, audios and WhatsApp messages with Morales was hijacked.
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In the same sense, and in accordance with EFEThe deputy minister commented that “the role of the parents” of the girl is being investigated for allowing Evo Morales to take her “on all his trips.”
In the event that Justice advances in this case against the former president, the penalties in Bolivia They are up to 20 years in prison for trafficking and trafficking of minors and up to six for rape.
