They request preventive detention for Evo Morales in Bolivia for the "Audio Case"

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(CNN Spanish) –– The Bolivian Anti-Corruption Prosecutors Commission announced on Monday that the formal complaint was issued and the preventive detention of former President Evo Morales was requested for the crimes of terrorism and terrorist financing within the so-called “Audio Case”, for allegedly coordinating blockades in the country with the coca grower leader Faustino Yucra during the crisis that Bolivia experienced in late 2019.

According to the entity that is conducting the investigation, the evidence shows that on November 14, 2019 Morales communicated by phone from Mexico City with Faustino Yucra, in El Torno, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. "Apparently, in that conversation, Morales would have instructed the coca grower leader to commit illegal acts during the violent events registered in the country as of November 10, 2019," the Prosecutor's Office said in a statement.

In addition, the report indicates that the video of the alleged call was found on Yucra's son's phone.

The statement adds that the forensic audiology expertise that was requested from the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI) of the Colombian Public Ministry indicates that "the samples have a high probability of identifying the voice of Mr. Evo Morales Ayma."

Morales, who is in Argentina as an asylee, wrote in his official Twitter account that "illegally and unconstitutionally, the La Paz Prosecutor's Office intends to charge me for terrorism with an altered audio and without being notified, further proof of the systematic political persecution of the de facto government ”.

Illegally and unconstitutionally, the La Paz Prosecutor's Office intends to charge me for terrorism with an altered audio and without being notified, further proof of the de facto government's systematic political persecution. Democracy and the Rule of Law will soon return to #Bolivia.

- Evo Morales Ayma (@evoespueblo) July 6, 2020

In the past, Morales has said that the video is a montage with the intention of giving him an international political judgment.

Since last April, Faustino Yucra has been in preventive detention for the same case. To date, there has been no comment on the video.

Evo Morales was the president of Bolivia between 2006 and 2019. He resigned from office in November 2019 in a context of protests after accusations of fraud in the general elections of October 20 of the same year.

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