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In Bolivia, the interim government will investigate 600 members of the former administration for corruption. Among those targeted by former ministers, deputy ministers, and President Evo Morales himself, now a refugee in Mexico.
" We are going to investigate 592 former officials, " said Mathias Kutsch, the head of the Bolivian Ministry of Justice's anti-corruption unit. Since the resignation and flight abroad of President Evo Morales last November, his vice-president and several members of his government have done the same.
Moreover, the investigation will mainly focus on those who have left the country, said Mathias Kutsch, to find out who is guilty of corruption, embezzlement of public funds, and especially who directed these funds to the foreign. The first results are expected for the month of April.
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Other surveys are already targeting national companies such as telecommunications and petroleum, and the ministries of mines, health and pensions.
Since its establishment, the interim government has regularly denounced acts of corruption committed during the fourteen years in power of Evo Morales, the first indigenous president of Bolivia.
Presidential May 3, 2020
Evo Morales will also not have the right to run for the next presidential election scheduled for May 3 - the results of the previous one, which he claimed to have won, were canceled . This does not prevent a young peasant leader, Andronica Rodriguez, considered to be the heir of Morales, from being at the top of the polls for the moment.
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