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NICARAGUA: COUNTRY NEAR UNITY ON ALEMAN INDICTMENT.

Publication: NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs
Publication Date: 29-AUG-02 		Format: Online - approximately 1036 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Efforts to bring former President Arnoldo Aleman to justice have accelerated recently (see NotiCen 2002-04-04). Nicaraguan special prosecutor Ivan Lara announced his intention to prosecute Aleman for fraud against the state and to see that Aleman gets the maximum penalty of 30 years. Speaking from Panama, where he arrived on Aug. 16 to gather evidence that the former chief executive of Central America's poorest country transferred millions of dollars of Nicaragua's money to accounts there, Lara told a press conference that, even with that sentence, the damage done to Nicaragua would not be repaid. He said he hoped to increase the punishment to 50 years with the addition of charges of money laundering, misappropriation of public funds, embezzlement, and conspiracy to commit crime.

He told the press that he had turned up evidence and documents in the investigation and would present them to the judicial authorities for authentication and to be passed on to...

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