Nicaragua: Cristian Tinoco's house raided after complaint

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(CNN Spanish) -

Cristian Tinoco, the daughter of the former Nicaraguan vice chancellor and member of the Unión Democrática Renovadora (Unamos) party, Víctor Hugo Tinoco, arrested on Sunday, denounced this Wednesday that the police carried out a raid on his house.

"Raiding my house," said Cristian in a message sent by cell phone to one of CNN's producers this Wednesday.

When called and wrote for more information, she did not answer.

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The Unamos party sent CNN a video recorded by Cristian this Wednesday, in which she says she has cancer and denounces that police officers were at her father's house and that she was accompanied by her mother and grandmother.

"Please, we ask for help," says Cristian in the video, in which it is not possible to see police officers.

Héctor Mairena, a spokesman for Unamos, told CNN on Wednesday that the raid was continuing at the house and that the police were not allowing neighbors and others to approach the property.

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At the moment, it is unknown if the Nicaraguan authorities have an open investigation against Cristian Tinoco or other members of her family.

"We have not done anything wrong," she says in the video.

CNN has tried unsuccessfully to contact Cristian Tinoco for more details.

Police have also not responded to requests from CNN regarding the case.

Raid complaint following arrest criticism

The break-in complaint at Cristian Tinoco's home comes after she criticized her father's arrest during an interview this week on CNN and even called it a "kidnapping."

The Nicaraguan National Police arrested Víctor Hugo Tinoco on Sunday night in Managua.

According to the police, he is being investigated in accordance with article 1 of Law 1055, the "Law for the defense of the rights of the people to Independence, sovereignty and self-determination for peace."

According to the police statement, Tinoco was detained for investigation of alleged "acts that undermine independence, sovereignty and self-determination, incite foreign interference in internal affairs, request military interventions, organize with financing from foreign powers to carry out acts of terrorism and destabilization, propose and manage economic, commercial and financial blockades against the country and its institutions, demand, exalt and applaud sanctions against the state of Nicaragua and its citizens and harm the supreme interests of the nation.

Until this Wednesday, there were 13 people detained in June under investigation in accordance with Law 1055, approved in December 2020 by the Nicaraguan National Assembly with a ruling majority.

The first 12 investigated for alleged acts against sovereignty are the presidential candidates Arturo Cruz, Félix Maradiaga and Juan Sebastián Chamorro, the opposition leaders José Pallais, José Adán Aguerri and Violeta Granera.

They were joined this weekend by former Sandinista guerrillas Dora María Téllez Argüello, Hugo Torres Jiménez and Víctor Hugo Tinoco and activists Tamara Dávila, Ana Margarita Vigil Gurdián and Suyen Barahona, the last six from the Unión Democrática Renovadora political movement.

This Tuesday, Luis Alberto Rivas Anduray, director of Banpro Grupo Promerica, a regional group of financial companies, also joined the list of detainees.

-Mario Medrano and Julián Zamora contributed to this report.