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(CNN Spanish) - Coca grower leader Faustino Yucra was sent to Palmasola prison with preventive detention for six months. He is accused of criminal association, public instigation to commit a crime and the illicit manufacturing of explosives.
The determination was made by the Fourth Criminal Investigating Court of Santa Cruz, after Yucra gave his informative statement in which he accepted the right of silence and refrained from testifying.
Yucra, who was on the run, was arrested Wednesday and was wanted on charges of terrorism, sedition and terrorist financing.
The accusations against Yucra correspond to a process that began in November by the transitional government, which presented a video in which a voice is heard that the Prosecutor's Office considers to be that of former President Evo Morales, allegedly ordering Yucra to block the cities and avoid food income during the social and political crisis that sparked the presidential resignation
At the time, Morales said the video was a montage with the intention of prosecuting him.
Yucra, for his part, has not commented on the video. To date, it is unknown if it has legal equipment. The Bolivian Government Ministry told CNN that if it does not have a lawyer to defend it, the State will assign one of its own motion.
When the process began, the Bolivian prosecutor's office sent the video to the Investigations Group of the Colombian Prosecutor's Office to verify the authenticity of the voice heard. The result of the expertise determined the "high probability" that the voice heard in the video would correspond to former President Morales.
Against Morales also weighs the arrest warrant for the crimes of terrorism, sedition and terrorist financing. The former president is in Argentina as an asylee and has described the order against him as "unfair, illegal and unconstitutional."
Yucra must also respond to the Bolivian justice for a drug trafficking case that dates back to June 2, 2010, when the anti-drug police discovered a cocaine factory in the municipality of Torno in the department of Santa Cruz. The Prosecutor's Office accused the coca grower leader of being the owner and ordered his preventive detention. He was subsequently released and has so far disappeared.
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