Regina Cañas confessed to having simulated a loan and thus justifying the origin of the money her son used for a car business.
Former television host Regina María Cañas Rivera, known artistically as “Aunt Bubu,” confessed Friday that she covered up the crime of money laundering in Seventh Court of Inquiry to avoid going to jail.
Cañas Rivera, ex-wife of Mauricio Funes, also returned the $ 95,000 for which she was charged. The former was reimbursed to the State for the damage caused, according to the Attorney General’s Office, with a property valued at $ 62,780.89 and $ 32,220 in cash.
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“Adding up a total of $ 95,000.89 for liability insurance,” the Attorney General’s Office stated.
Cañas and his son Diego Funes are being prosecuted for the Public Looting case, of which Mauricio Funes is noted for having led a structure that extracted $ 351 million from the state in its management period.
The confession he made before the court and the return of money are part of the agreement he made with the Prosecutor’s Office. It is unknown if he negotiated a prison sentence that could be released.
Jorge Hernandez, who at the time faced the money laundering charge, testified as a witness at the hearing yesterday to corroborate Cañas’ confession.
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The court has scheduled for Tuesday that the hearing in which the sentence that will be imposed on Aunt Bubu will be known.
Money was deposited in August
The $ 32,220 was handed over by Cañas on August 17, 2020 to the Ministry of Finance’s Alien Custody Funds Unit.
In addition, the defense of Canyes Rivera notified last January 28 to the Seventh Court of Instruction that the civil conviction is insured with the property that has a precautionary measure of annotation of demand, according to the Prosecutor’s Office.
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Although she handed over money and property, Cañas alleged at the exit of the hearing that she went to court to “accept that yes, indeed I what I did was protect my son, but from that to that I took money that has to be returned and that has been stolen there is a big difference “.
“I want to clarify that in the same allegations of the prosecution themselves they said that a penny of money other than mine was never found, my accusation has never been to take money that is not mine,” he told The World and The Graphic Press.