MADRID, 18 (EUROPA PRESS)
The president of the Bolivian Senate, Andrónico Rodríguez, announced this Thursday that the Chamber is considering the possibility of presenting legal measures against the former self-proclaimed president Jeanine Áñez for the “irregular” loans that she requested from the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
“We are becoming aware of this issue and we will see the possibility of filing a lawsuit against the ‘de facto government,” said Rodríguez, for whom the economic damage that was done with these loans to Bolivia “is evident.”
Rodríguez refers to the loan that the Government of Áñez requested in March of last year from the IMF, valued at 346.7 million dollars (286.7 million euros) and which was returned in full with interest that amounted to 24.3 million dollars (20 million euros), as revealed on Wednesday the Central Bank of Bolivia (BCB).
“It is incredible how it has proceeded. The Government will see the details, but there is an obvious economic damage, of approximately 24 million dollars,” explained the president of the Senate, for whom “Áñez is responsible.”
The BCB, details the Bolivian newspaper ‘Opinion’, reported that this loan is “irregular and onerous due to financial conditions” and “generated additional and millionaire economic costs for the Bolivian State.”
The ECB explained that the instruments used by the IMF “conditioned a series of fiscal, financial, exchange and monetary impositions”, which contravene articles 158 and 322 of the Constitution, “thus violating the sovereignty and economic interests of the country”, Therefore, they will initiate legal actions against the corresponding public officials.
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