On Monday, the former director of the Bank of Costa Rica (BCR), Francisco Molina, said he suffered intimidation from the government of Luis Guillermo Solis after reporting the cementazo case.
The statements were made in the commission that analyzes the report of the Attorney General’s Office on the mediatic case.
Both Molina and Mónica Segnini – also a former director – were warned that if they continued to make complaints about this case, they would be referred to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, according to their statements.
This forum investigates why this institution notified the Legislative Assembly about the report, in a period when the first power of the Republic was in transition, between the departure of lawmakers from the previous period and the current ones.
That notification contained a document stating that Solís was not guilty of lack of probity for the Chinese cement and nobody could refute that decision of the Public Ethics Office (PEP), precisely because they did not know in advance that notification and the deadline expired.
Molina said he was not called to the PEP to provide his statements on this subject. The Attorney General’s office took only two months to investigate the former president.
The former director recalled that all members of the Board were called to Presidential House to ask them to “behave well and not fight for the case of Chinese cement,” in the words of the former director.
Within the organ there were divisions, mainly with Paola Mora and Mario Barrenechea, whom he classified as the main interlocutors with Zapote, as well as Gustavo Arias and Ronald Solís, close to the former head of state.
The previous Monday in this same Legislative Committee, Segnini revealed not having been heard by the former head of state to give details of everything that happened in relation to the Board and the credit for businessman Juan Carlos Bolaños.
Three days later, Solis avoided responsibilities and rather questioned the former members of the Board for reporting very serious events almost a year and a half later.
Given this, Molina defended that they did everything possible, given these internal struggles.