Prosecutors Add Usurpation-of-Functions and Money-Laundering Charges Against Cerimedo

Attorney General Roger Mariaca announced Sept. 9 that the Public Ministry expanded its illicit-enrichment investigation into Fernando Cerimedo to include usurpation of public functions and money laundering (legitimación de ganancias ilícitas), saying a prosecutorial commission would take an expanded statement from him "within other criminal facts attributed to the defendant." The additions bring Cerimedo's concurrent legal exposure in Bolivia to four cases — illicit enrichment/money laundering, attempted femicide against Nadia Beller, domestic violence, and the Beni drug-trafficking-flights probe opened in late August — while he remains held at the high-security Chonchocoro facility after being transferred from Palmasola.