Ex-Innovation Authority boss facing money laundering trial
The former director of the Government Innovation Authority (AIG), Eduardo Jaén, and his wife and children along with the businessman Mayer Mizrachi will have to face a trial for the alleged commission of money laundering to the detriment of the AIG.
A criminal case was also opened against Eduardo Jaén Roy, Ariana Jaén Roy de Barletta, children of the former director of the AIG, and his wife Aracelli María Roy de Jaén.
The decision was made by the First Settlement Court for Criminal Cases through the summons to trial on July 10, 2023, after determining that the crime investigated by the Public Ministry “is duly accredited by carrying out various operations in the financial system with characteristics typical of the crime of money laundering, in order to obtain that the illicit funds maintain a disguise of legitimacy” is indicated in the information that has been released by the Judicial Branch.
The court, also set a trial date for April 1, 2024, at 9:00 in the morning and an alternate date for April 29.
The process is related to the award of a contract in 2014, signed between AIG and a technology company that gave it the power to create the Criptex platform to transmit sensitive messages in an encrypted manner, related to citizen security.
