Montealegre, Immunity, Politics

Eduardo Montealegre and 38 others have been accused with fraud related to CENIS (I guess they are basically CDs) during the dealings with four failed banks. This took place during the Aleman and Bolaños presidencies. The allegations are not new but this week official documents were filed. An article in El Nuevo Diario today covers this.

Montealegre just presented papers to show that he is immune from prosecution because he is a member of the legislature. He claims this is politically motivated which is hard to argue with as he is running for Mayor of Managua. The next trick is to see if the Sandinista part of the National Assembly can get enough votes to strip him of his immunity.

With Carl Rove missing again, John Conyers sitting on the impeachment of VP Cheney and such, I thought it was a good time to show the "it works like this in Nicaragua" side. I mean, Montealegre could just come out and prove he isn't a crook but why do that when you at least currently have immunity.