Former deputy  and seven Assembly staff face embezzlement  trial

The First Settlement Court for Criminal Cases called Mario Miller, a former deputy from the Cambio Democrático (CD) party, and seven other officials of the National Assembly (AN), for alleged embezzlement and falsification of documents.

The First Settlement Court for Criminal Cases called Mario Miller, a former deputy from the Cambio Democrático (CD) party , and seven other officials of the National Assembly (AN), for alleged embezzlement and falsification of documents.

Through an edict of August 17, which carries the signature of the second liquidator of criminal cases, Agueda Rentería, the parties are informed of the decision to prosecute Miller, Eréndira González, Edith Navarro, Marisela Araúz, María del Carmen Araúz, Migdalia Sánchez, Isabel María Araúz and Ismael Oviedo Frías.

The trial will be on March 25, 2024; the alternate date is April 17 of the same year.

The investigations into the case began as a result of a publication in La Prensa, in which it was revealed that AN deputies used the forms of that entity to allegedly defraud the State, through the issuance of checks in the name of third parties. that, after changing them, they kept a commission. The rest of the money was delivered to the now-accused.

The La Prensa investigation determined that the checks were issued to supposedly provide financial aid to various communities, which never happened.

After the journalistic investigation, the lawyers Fredy Pitti and Carlos Herrera Morán filed a complaint with the Supreme Court against Miller and 12 other AN deputies, for alleged irregularities in the handling of funds.

In February 2018, the Comptroller delivered to the Public Ministry 186 audits on funds managed by deputies that had to be delivered to community boards and municipalities in the country.

In 2019, former Comptroller Federico Humbert also filed 11 complaints against AN deputies, including Miller, as well as Francisco Alemán, from the Liberal Republican Movement (Molirena); Rubén De León of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), and Edwin Zuñiga, of CD.

Miller did not win re-election in May 2019. Alemán and Zúñiga are still representatives. De León is also a deputy, but now of the Central American Parliament (Parlacen

Through an edict of August 17, which carries the signature of the second liquidator of criminal cases, Agueda Rentería, the parties are informed of the decision to prosecute Miller, Eréndira González, Edith Navarro, Marisela Araúz, María del Carmen Araúz, Migdalia Sánchez, Isabel María Araúz and Ismael Oviedo Frías.

The trial will be on March 25, 2024; the alternate date is April 17 of the same year.

The investigations into the case began as a result of a publication in La Prensa, in which it was revealed that AN deputies used the forms of that entity to allegedly defraud the State, through the issuance of checks in the name of third parties. that, after changing them, they kept a commission. The rest of the money was delivered to the now-accused.

The La Prensa investigation determined that the checks were issued to supposedly provide financial aid to various communities, which never happened.

After the journalistic investigation, the lawyers Fredy Pitti and Carlos Herrera Morán filed a complaint with the Supreme Court against Miller and 12 other deputies, for alleged irregularities in the handling of funds.

In February 2018, the Comptroller delivered to the Public Ministry 186 audits on funds managed by deputies that had to be delivered to community boards and municipalities in the country.

In 2019, former Comptroller Federico Humbert also filed 11 complaints against AN deputies, including Miller, as well as Francisco Alemán, from the Liberal Republican Movement (Molirena); Rubén De León of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), and Edwin Zuñiga, of CD.

Miller did not win re-election in May 2019. Alemán and Zúñiga are still representatives. De León is also a deputy, but now of the Central American Parliament (Parlacen).