The police statement says the bank accounts were linked to religious figures convicted of treason and other crimes.
Nicaraguan police said on Saturday, May 27, they are investigating several dioceses of the Catholic Church for money laundering, a day after local media reported that the bank accounts of parishes in the Central American country had been frozen.
Ortega’s government has intensified attacks against the Catholic Church in the wake of 2018 anti-government protests in which some 360 people died after what human rights groups call police repression. The government accused the bishops, who mediated talks between the government and protesters, of attempting a coup.
“People have their bank accounts here, this is how they carried out their work,” Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes said in an article posted on news website despacho505.com.
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