Prado assured that the loan case occurred while Murillo was making arrangements to purchase tear gas.
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Lawyer Gary Prado reported that the former Minister of Government, Arturo Murillo, pressured and managed, through the Ministry of Defense, the loan of tear gas from Ecuador with the argument of providing the Bolivian Police with anti-riot supplies during the Jeanine Áñez regime.
In May, Murillo was apprehended in the United States on charges of money laundering and bribery due to his participation in a case of acquisition of tear gas with a premium.
Prado assured that the loan case occurred while Murillo was making arrangements to acquire the tear gas from the Cóndor company through the intermediary Bravo Tactical Solutions LLC (BTS) for a price of $ 5.6 million, that is, with a surcharge of $ us 2.3 million.
“They loaned an Air Force plane and asked the Ecuadorian government for the equivalent of 9 million bolivianos of gas to supply until this purchase arrives and they were never returned,” said the lawyer who assumed the defense of two former officials linked to the case, they are deprived of liberty, according to the ATB report.
The jurist said that Murillo pressed for the loan to be chosen on the grounds that the Bolivian Police did not have the necessary supply of chemical agents and linked the Ministry of Defense.
“Before my clients were officials of the Ministry of Defense, they had proceeded to provide an Air Force flight to Quito, Ecuador, to collect this material,” he said.
He said that Ecuador claimed the loan from then-Defense Minister Fernando López for the tear gas provided in 2020.
Prado’s complaint adds to what was said by the former Minister of Communication of Jeanine Áñez, Roxana Lizárraga, who maintained, in an interview with radio Fides, that having the version that the Police and the Armed Forces did not have chemical agents to disperse In an alleged attempt to exploit the Senkata plant, the de facto Government requested a loan of these chemical agents from a “friendly government”.
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