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Bolivia: Penitentiary Regime denies that there are cameras in the cell of the governor of Santa Cruz

The address of Bolivian Penitentiary Regime denied this Friday that there are hidden cameras in the cell of the governor of Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camachoafter his defense showed the artifact to the press, which was found by the opposition leader himself embedded in a wall.

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The director of the Penitentiary Regime, Juan Carlos Limpiastold the media that no cameras were found in the cell of the governor of Santa Cruz, who is being held preventively in a prison in the highlands, and that they also did not show “wires” or connections, as denounced by Camacho’s defense.

“The prisoner has made damage to the interior of the cell that the family has seen, has reviewed and has verified when the corresponding arrangements and adaptations were being made”maintained Limpias.

He also stressed that Camacho was taken from his cell after making the complaint that there was a hidden camera in his room due to “recommendations from the doctors”, to “protect his health” and also so that the Institute for Scientific Technical Research of the University Police (IITCUP) and the Special Force to Fight Crime (FELCC) will carry out the investigations.

Limpias described the alleged hidden camera found as a “tramoya” and maintained that Camacho’s family, his defense and representatives of the Ombudsman’s Office entered the prison to “see all the things that have been misrepresented.”

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Earlier, Martin Camacho, one of the governor’s lawyers, left the prison and showed the media the small camera that was hidden in one of the walls of the opponent’s cell where they had to install a bathroom and where he received the “conjugal visit.” of his wife.

“The camera was installed inside a wall, they put it with stucco, right on the wall they made, which did not exist, which they built for Luis Fernando’s bathroom”he pointed.

He was also struck by the fact that in Camacho’s cell there are “two antennas and two transmission dishes.”

Camacho has been in preventive detention for four months, since last December 28 when he was arrested in a controversial operation, and is being investigated for the crimes of terrorism, active bribery and seduction of troops, which is the usurpation of political or military command. in the framework of the “coup d’état I” case due to the 2019 crisis.

The ruling party points out that in 2019 there was a “coup d’état” against the then president Evo Morales, while the opposition maintains that the protests that led to the resignation of the ex-president were due to fraud in his favor in the annulled elections of that year.

Source: Elcomercio

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