Queen Cañas, “Tía Bubu”, will confess to crimes in connection with money laundering related to former President Funes

“Mrs. Regina Cañas is undergoing an abbreviated trial. She will be convicted and will return the money to the state. We will make her return what was stolen,” prosecutor Raúl Melara reported on Twitter.

Queen Cañas, known as “Tía Bubu”, will face a brief trial before the Seventh Court of Inquiry in San Salvador and will confess to her involvement in the corruption of former President Mauricio Funes in exchange for a lower sentence.

Cañas, who was the second wife of the former fugitive governor, is accused of the crime of “special cases of concealment of money laundering” by the Prosecutor’s Office.

“Mrs. Regina Cañas is undergoing an abbreviated trial. She will be convicted and will return the money to the state. We make them return what was stolen “, wrote the prosecutor Raúl Melara on Twitter.

“In the case of Ms. Regina Cañas, she presented herself through her lawyers at the trial, obviously she is a fugitive, I understand that there is a request for an abbreviated trial (short trial), which obviously must be considered, it would happen because would be willing to return the amount of money he is being prosecuted for, “prosecutor Raúl Melara said in an interview with El Diario de Hoy in January 2020.

SEE: These are the unwarranted funds of Diego Roberto, the son of former President Funes

The former asylum partner of the Nicaraguan president allegedly pretended to have received a $ 95,000 loan from Luis Antonio Flores Mancía, but according to the prosecution, there is no evidence that the man did banking or delivered that money to Reeds.

According to the Prosecutor’s Office, Cañas and Funes tried to “give a legal appearance to the funds” used by their son Diego and “thus to avoid the consequences at civil level and especially to 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. The vehicles sold by the young man include a Hummer truck, a BMW and a Lexus. The latter bought it for $ 60,000, according to Probity investigations.

Tax sources have indicated in the process that the origin of this money for the purchase of cars is illegal. The accused, who now has a national and international arrest warrant, has no “legal sources of reported income” during the purchase period.

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