"The ninth judge of the criminal trial district of Managua, Luden Martín Quiroz García, confirmed the sentences of between 7 and 13 years in prison requested by the Public Ministry [of Nicaragua] against the five implicated in the case known as Fundación Violeta Barrios de Chamorro (FVBCH).
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Cristiana Chamorro Barrios, former director of the FVBCH and former Nicaraguan presidential candidate, was sentenced to eight years in prison: five for the crime of money laundering and three for misappropriation, and a fine equivalent to three times the amount allegedly laundered.
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'You are criminalizing me for training journalists and justice is being used not to tell the truth. If I have been the conduit to receive these donations and train journalists, it is because I am an honest person. I have never taken any money from the FVBCH for my own benefit because I was educated with great values and I have not had the need to do so either,' added Cristiana Chamorro Barrios, who has been under house arrest since June 2, 2021.
