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The Public Ministry of Nicaragua reported in a statement that it accused former Vice President Sergio Ramírez of committing alleged acts that promote and incite hatred and violence and ordered his home to be searched and detained.
The prosecution also points out Ramírez, a multi-award winning novelist, winner of the Cervantes Prize in 2017 and the Alfaguara Novel Prize in 2000, of having received funds from the Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Foundation through the Luisa Mercado Foundation.
The directors of the Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Foundation face a judicial process for alleged misappropriation and money laundering.
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These funds, according to the Prosecutor's Office, were intended for purposes other than those of the Chamorro family foundation, such as allegedly "providing financing to individuals and organizations that sought to destabilize the smooth running of the country's economic and social development."
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Cristiana Chamorro, who presided over the foundation named after her mother, has already rejected the charges of misappropriation and money laundering.
The foundation has not reacted to this new complaint.
Its directors are imprisoned, in isolation and other fugitives from justice.
CNN is seeking your response to the accusation that it financed the destabilization.
According to the Public Ministry, "these actions are consistent with the criminal offense of conspiracy to undermine national integrity."
The statement informs that arrest and search was requested.
Ramírez, who is in Costa Rica, responded to the prosecution's accusation with a video in which he stated that he had already been accused of similar crimes during the Somoza dictatorship.
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"This is not the first time that this has happened in my life," he said. "In 1977 the Somoza family accused me through their own prosecutor's office, and before their own judges, of crimes similar to those of now: terrorism, illicit association to to commit a crime, and to attempt against order and peace, when I was fighting against that dictatorship just as I am now fighting against this other ".
The writer added: "Dictatorships lack imagination and repeat their lies, their fury, their hatred, and their whims. They are the same delusions, the same blind stubbornness for power, and the same mediocrity of those who holding the instruments in their fists repressive, and having shed all scruples, they also believe that they are masters of the dignity, conscience and freedom of others. "
Ramírez had appeared before the Prosecutor's Office on June 1 in the case that that organization continues against directors of the Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Foundation for alleged money laundering.
At the time, Ramírez said that the funds were managed with absolute transparency.
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President Daniel Ortega said on June 23 on a national television channel, referring to the dozens of detained opponents, that they were not candidates or leaders but rather members of a network of "criminals" who raised funds to destabilize the country.
Ramírez was interviewed last week on the Aristegui program, which is presented by Mexican journalist Carmen Aristegui on CNN en Español.
There, the former vice president expressed that the upcoming November elections were "a macabre joke."
The Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh) condemned on Wednesday what it defined as a new violation of human rights, and alerted the international community of these events, which, according to the organization, "evidence the perversity of the Ortega-Murillo regime and their eagerness to criminalize and silence voices that with the truth demand justice and democracy ”.
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The Public Ministry also accused Amaru Ruíz, president of Fundación del Rio, for the alleged dissemination of false news through information and communication technologies, sanctioned in the Special Cybercrime Law.
According to the Prosecutor's Office, Ruíz said that the State was not investigating the events that occurred in 2020 and 2021 on the North Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua, where several indigenous people were killed.
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According to the Public Ministry, these actions create a climate of anxiety and insecurity that endangers national sovereignty, for which his arrest was requested.
Ruíz, who has been in exile since 2018, reacted on his Twitter account this Wednesday: "They open an investigation against me for denouncing the violation of human rights in Nicaragua," he wrote.
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