Queen Cañas confessed that she simulated a loan and thus justified the origin of the money used by her son for a car business.
Former TV host Regina María Cañas Rivera, known artistically as “Tía Bubu”, confessed on Friday that she covered up the money laundering offense in front of the seventh investigative court to avoid going to jail.
Cañas Rivera, Mauricio Funes’ ex-wife, also returned the $ 95,000 she was accused of. The aforementioned were reimbursed to the state for the damage caused, according to the General Prosecutor’s Office, with a property valued at USD 62,780.89 and USD 32,220 in cash.
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“Adding a total of $ 95,000.89 to civil liability insurance,” the attorney general said.
Cañas and his son Diego Funes are being prosecuted for the public robbery case, which states that Mauricio Funes allegedly ran a structure that extracted 351 million dollars from the state during his term.
The confession he gave before the court and the return of the money are part of the agreement he concluded with the Prosecutor’s Office. It is not known whether he negotiated a custodial sentence.
Jorge Hernández, who at the time faced the accusation of money laundering, testified yesterday at the meeting to confirm Cañas’ confession.
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The court scheduled the hearing for next Tuesday in which the sentence that will be applied to Aunt Bubu will be known.
The money was deposited in August
The $ 32,220 was delivered by Cañas on August 17, 2020 to the External Funds Unit in the custody of the Ministry of Finance.
In addition, Cañas Rivera’s defense notified the Seventh Court of Inquiry on January 28 that the civil sentence is insured with the property that has a precautionary measure to register the application, according to the Prosecutor’s Office.
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Despite giving money and property, Cañas claimed at the end of the hearing that he went to court to “accept that yes, indeed what I did was to protect my son, but from that to that I taken the money I have to return and that it was stolen there is a big difference ”.
“I want to clarify that in the same accusations of the Prosecutor’s Office, they themselves said that a penny of money that was not mine was never found, my accusation was never to take money that is not mine,” he said. he for El Mundo and La Prensa Gráfica.