Deputy denounces Mariaca over vote-buying in attorney-general election
Rafael López, from Libre, filed a criminal complaint in Santa Cruz against Róger Mariaca for bribery and illicit gains in his election as attorney-general.
Criminal complaint against Mariaca for alleged corruption in attorney-general election
Deputy Rafael López, from the Libre Alliance, filed a criminal complaint with the departmental prosecutor's office in Santa Cruz against Róger Mariaca for the alleged purchase of votes during his election as attorney-general of the State in October 2024, according to reporting by El Deber.
The complaint alleges two offences: active bribery and money laundering. López requested that interim attorney-general José Armando Urioste conduct an audit of Mariaca's election process and the financial movements of legislators from the previous term.
"The complaint is also directed against former parliamentarians who allegedly received money from Róger Mariaca so he would be elected Attorney-General. It is important to clean up the image of the Legislative Assembly," López stated.
The parliamentarian also asked that those who publicly reported the alleged delivery of money be summoned to testify, including the vice-minister of Internal Affairs, Peter Maldonado, and the government spokesperson, José Luis Gálvez. Both had stated at the time that the payments would have ranged between 5,000 and 15,000 dollars per vote.
In the same statement, López announced that next Wednesday a bill of his authorship will be debated in the Chamber of Deputies committee, proposing that departmental attorneys-general be elected directly by the Departmental Legislative Assemblies. The initiative, as he explained, seeks to deepen departmental autonomies and allow each department to appoint its attorney-general based on knowledge of its local reality, rather than receiving appointments from La Paz.
Source: El Deber