US EditionNicaraguan Court Finds Long-Time Ortega Adviser Guilty of Money Laundering
Bayardo Arce and his assistant were convicted in a $2.71 billion scheme using tax fraud and shell companies, amid claims of a political purge within Ortega's administration.
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Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo resorted on Tuesday to the crimes of money laundering and fiscal fraud to condemn who was, until just over six months ago, one of the key pieces of the Sandinista regime's economic gear: the historic commander Bayardo Arce Castaño. After keeping him half a year in a maximum security cell in La Modelo prison, under total isolation, and just three days after sources of his family in exile denounced EL PAÍS who fea…
San José, Costa Rica. Nicaragua’s justice system condemned for corruption the historic Sandinista commander Bayardo Arce, former economic adviser to President Daniel Ortega, and confiscated his assets, the Nicaraguan government reported Tuesday, without specifying the penalty. Arce, 76 years old, was imprisoned at the end of July last year after falling into disgrace by an internal purge in the circles of power. According to exiled Nicaraguan op…
Nicaraguan court finds long-time Ortega adviser guilty of money laundering
A Nicaraguan court declared Bayardo Arce, a long-time ally and economic adviser to President Daniel Ortega, guilty of money laundering, the Nicaraguan Attorney General’s Office said in a statement on Tuesday.
Ortega’s Attorney General’s Office sentences Bayardo Arce for “money laundering”
Q24N — The regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo tried and convicted its longtime ally and economic advisor, Bayardo Arce, who had been detained last year. The swift justice followed the escape to Costa Rica of Arce’s wife, Amelia Ybarra-Rojas, and her brother Amilcar, who had been closely watched by Nicaraguan authorities. Arce, who is 76 years old and a veteran Sandinista commander, was first detained in July 2025 after a police raid on …
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