The former president of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Costa Rica, Paola Mora Tumminelli, will not be able to leave the country and must surrender her passport because she is suspected of participating in the cementazo scandal.
This was determined by the Extraordinary Court of the First Judicial Circuit, after the precautionary measures against the woman arrested this weekend.
The Press Department of the Judiciary explained the precautionary measures:
• She can’t leave the country,
• she has to surrender her passport and
• sign every 15 days in the office that investigates the case.
• Contact with witnesses of the case for a period of six months from today is completely forbidden.
The judicial authorities raided her house and the law firm where she worked, in La Unión de Tres Ríos, Curridabat, and Bello Horizonte de Escazú.
Judicial police said that Mora, a faithful defender of the questioned credit of more than $30 million to businessman Juan Carlos Bolaños, is not only linked to cementazo but would have taken advantage of
strategic positions on the boards of a state bank and a company [to obtain] patrimonial benefits in favor of an Association related to a sports group of a state university.”
In addition, raids were made in the house of Mora’s bother and a man named Muñoz related to the university sports team.