The defendant rejected the statements of prosecutor Raúl Melara and said that in the same tax allegations it has been pointed out that “a penny of money other than mine was never found.”
Television presenter Regina Cañas, also known as “Tia Bubu”, accused of the crime of covering up money laundering in the case of former President Mauricio Funes, appeared this Friday in the Seventh Court of Instruction for appear before the special hearing of the abbreviated trial that takes place against him.
Upon leaving the courts, Cañas gave statements to the press where he denied the statements that prosecutor Raúl Melara made known via Twitter where he noted that the defendant “will return the money to the state.”
“She will be convicted and will also return the money to the state. We are making the stolen return,” the head of the prosecutor’s office said.
“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,” Cañas said. in The Graphic Press.
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“I came here to accept that yes indeed what I did was protect my son, but from that to the fact that I took money that has to be returned and that it has been stolen there is a big difference,” he said. added. Jorge Hernández, a witness for the FGR, also appeared at the hearing.
According to the investigations, Regina Cañas, ex-partner of Funes and mother of Diego Funes, also involved cases of corruption to the detriment of the State; he would have pretended to have received a $ 95,000 loan from Luis Antonio Flores Mancia, but according to the Prosecutor’s Office, there is no record that this gentleman has carried out banking operations or handed over this money to Cañas.
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His son Diego is accused by the Prosecutor’s Office of spending $ 102,984.39 of public money to pay for 63 trips to which he was always accompanied by bodyguards from the Presidential Battalion and several of his friends. Investigations also note that he bought during the presidential term of Funes, eight vehicles and a motorcycle for a total value of $ 154 thousand. Among the vehicles the young man traded were a Hummer van, a BMW and a Lexus. The latter bought it for $ 60,000, according to probity investigations.
According to the Public Ministry, Cañas and Funes tried to “give a legal appearance to the funds” used by their son in order to “avoid in this way the consequences at the civil level and especially to avoid a criminal investigation.”