Regina Cañas confessed to simulating a loan, thus justifying the origin of the money her son used for a car company.
Former television host, Regina María Cañas Rivera, artistically known as “Tía Bubu”, confessed on Friday that she had covered up the crime of money laundering from the seventh investigating judge to avoid going to jail.
Cañas Rivera, Mauricio Funes’ ex-wife, also returned the $ 95,000 she was accused of. The foregoing was rewarded to the state for the damage caused, according to the attorney general’s office, with real estate worth $ 62,780.89 and $ 32,220 in cash.
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“A total of $ 95,000.89 will be added for civil liability insurance,” said the attorney general.
Cañas and his son Diego Funes are being prosecuted for the public looting case, from which Mauricio Funes is said to have led a structure that raised $ 351 million from the state during his tenure.
The confession he made in court and the return of the money are part of the agreement he made with the prosecutor’s office. It is not known whether he negotiated a prison sentence that can be released.
Jorge Hernández, who was accused of money laundering at the time, testified as a witness at the hearing yesterday to confirm Cañas’ confession.
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The aforementioned court has scheduled the hearing for next Tuesday in which the punishment that will be imposed on Aunt Bubu will be known.
Money was deposited in August
The $ 32,220 was handed over by Cañas to the unit of external funds in the custody of the Treasury Department on August 17, 2020.
In addition, Cañas Rivera’s defense informed the seventh investigating judge on Jan. 28 that the civil penalty is insured with the property having a precautionary measure to record the claim, the prosecution said.
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Despite giving money and the property, Cañas claimed at the end of the hearing that she had gone to court to “ accept that I did indeed protect my son, but from then on I took money that I have to return. and that it has been stolen there is a big difference ”.
“I want to clarify that in the same allegations made by the Public Prosecution Service itself, they said that a penny of money that was not mine was never found, my charge has never been that I took money that is not mine,” he told El. Mundo and La. Prensa Gráfica.