The Police detained this Wednesday the security adviser to the Government of El Salvador, Alejandro Muyshondt, accused by the president himself, Nayib Bukele, of acting as a “double agent since 2019” for working for former president Mauricio Funes (2009- 2014), whom he “would have helped to evade justice and not be captured”, after he was investigated for illicit enrichment and fled to Nicaragua, where he has been since September 2016 after receiving asylum from the Daniel Ortega regime.
Specifically, the El Salvador Prosecutor’s Office issued an arrest warrant against the security adviser for the crimes of disclosure of secret facts, actions or documents by an official employee and favoring evasion, for the benefit of Funes (Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front). , for which it will be presented to the courts.
In his account of the social network X (formerly called Twitter), Bukele explained that the investigations of the State Intelligence Agency discovered that both Muyshondt and Funes leaked classified documents and “in several cases modified” to three journalists about the operations that were carried out. have been carried out in El Salvador since June 1 in the framework of the war against corruption that began that day and whose first action was the seizure of all the assets of former President Alfredo Cristiani (1989-1994).
Thus, he indicated that Muyshondt’s office, being from the security branch, was one of those that had access to a “small part” of the evidence that can prove the commission of crimes related to corruption. In addition to revealing the information to journalists, according to Bukele, the adviser also leaked it to “a foreign government and various citizens of other countries, as a safe in case they are discovered.”
The Salvadoran president stressed that there is “direct evidence” indicating that a person from the State Intelligence Agency, an informant of former President Funes, “would have notified Muyshondt of the investigation,” for which the latter decided to leak evidence accusing the deputy Erick García, from Nuevas Ideas, Bukele’s party. The president acknowledges that some of these tests are “conclusive” and others “required further investigation, such as the possible use of drugs acquired from a drug dealer known as Anubis.”
However, as detailed by the president, the security adviser decided to publish all the evidence against the deputy that he had helped to collect against him and threatened to publish all the other evidence in his possession from all the other cases to which had access, including “real ones, others still incomplete, others in the investigation process and other false ones that were intended to be implanted together with Funes, including edited audios and/or taken out of context, as well as false documents, in case of being prosecuted.”
Faced with this situation, Nuevas Ideas also expelled the deputy from the party and canceled his candidacy for the February 2024 elections, after the Prosecutor’s Office concluded that there was fraud in the public faith by García, while he was still they investigate the other crimes that could have been committed by this deputy and his substitute.
For now, Bukele stresses that the evidence is “sufficient” to prosecute the deputy for ideological falsehood, which is why Attorney General Rodolfo Delgado delivered a petition to the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday to withdraw his immunity so that he can be investigated for that crime. . The deputy himself had requested that the jurisdiction be withdrawn.
The arrest of Muyshondt and the expulsion of García were due to an altercation between them, after the security adviser published on his X account the screenshots of a supposed conversation between the deputy and a drug trafficker in which they talk about some packages that the legislator brought from Mexico. He also posted images of plastic-lined barrels and two suspicious packages. García denied that he was the one who sent those messages and denounced the security adviser for slanderous accusation, simulation of crime and coercion. For his part, Muyshondt challenged him to remove the immunity of deputy to be able to denounce him in the Prosecutor’s Office.
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