Overview
- Luis Arce was arrested in La Paz on December 10 under a Public Ministry order and taken to FELCC anticorruption facilities.
- Prosecutors asked a judge to jail him preventively for three months, citing flight risk and obstruction, and requested his transfer to the Qalahuma prison in Viacha.
- The government listed charges including favoring illicit enrichment, resolutions contrary to the Constitution and laws, failure to perform duties, misuse of influence and antieconomic conduct.
- Attorney General Roger Mariaca stated Arce will be investigated in his capacity as a former economy minister, not through a special presidential trial process.
- Officials estimate a presumptive loss of about 360 million bolivianos in this episode; prosecutors plan to call 24 witnesses, as allies like María Nela Prada denounce the operation as an illegal “kidnapping.”