This is how they found the money that was smuggled inside an ambulance leaving former Bolivian Attorney General Roger Mariaca’s home this week. As you can see, there are bags of bolivianos and dollars hidden inside, and all four people on board the ambulance were apprehended.
Mariaca was arrested at Bolivia’s Viru Viru airport, just two days after the Trump administration barred him from the United States for taking bribes to facilitate narcotrafficking.
Police counted about 3.53 million bolivianos and $10,000. Fourteen people were detained in the wider operation.
Bolivia’s interior minister said the raids, which were carried out with U.S. cooperation, dismantled a network inside the prosecutor’s office that was protecting traffickers.
Visa bans issued by the Trump administration turned into arrests within days. This is proof the Trump administration is treating drug trafficking in Latin America as a priority.
Great work
@SecRubio @POTUS @StateDept!
BREAKING:
The Attorney General of Bolivia, Roger Mariaca, and the Santa Cruz departmental prosecutor, Alberto Zeballos, were apprehended at the Viru Viru International airport last night.
This comes just two days after the United States revoked their visas and blacklisted them from traveling to the United States over their alleged ties to drug trafficking.
Source tells me the US may have been involved in the operation with Bolivian authorities to arrest Mariaca.