“Ms. Regina Cañas is undergoing an abbreviated trial. She will be convicted and will also return the money to the state. We will have them return what was stolen,” prosecutor Raúl Melara said on Twitter.
Regina Cañas, known as “Tía Bubu”, will face an abridged trial before San Salvador’s seventh investigating judge and will confess her participation in the corruption of former president Mauricio Funes in exchange for a lesser sentence.
Cañas, who was the second wife of the former fugitive governor, is accused by the prosecution of the crime of “special cases of concealment of money laundering”.
“Mrs. Regina Cañas is undergoing a shortened trial. She will be convicted and will also return the money to the state. We let them return what has been stolen ”, prosecutor Raúl Melara wrote on Twitter.
“In the case of Ms. Regina Cañas, she has appeared in the trial through her lawyers, she is clearly on the run, I understand there is a request for an abbreviated trial (short trial), which must of course be taken into account, would happen because you are willing to return the amount for which it is processed, ” said prosecutor Raúl Melara in an interview with El Diario de Hoy in January 2020.
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The ex-partner of the president’s asylum in Nicaragua is said to have pretended to receive a loan of $ 95,000 from Luis Antonio Flores Mancía, but according to the prosecution, there is no record of this man doing banking operations or delivering that money to Cañas .
According to the prosecution, Cañas and Funes tried to “make the money” used by their son Diego “appear legally” and “thus avoid the consequences at civil level and, above all, avoid a criminal investigation”.
During Funes’ presidential term, Diego Roberto Funes Cañas bought eight vehicles and a motorcycle for a total value of $ 154,000. Among the vehicles the young man traded include a Hummer truck, a BMW, and a Lexus. The latter bought it for $ 60,000, according to Probity surveys.
Tax sources indicated during the trial that the origin of this money to buy cars is illegal. The now accused, who has a national and international arrest warrant, has no “legal sources of declared income” during that buying period.