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Ex-Aid Testifies that Marinkovic Financed Accused Terrorists

Posted: admin on Mar 18 | International, Law & Justice

On March 17th, former Santa Cruz civic leader Branko Marinkovic’s longtime personal assistant and right-hand man for 14 years Juan Judelka confirmed that Marinkovic was financing a group called “La Torre” that is accused of terrorist conspiracy.  Judelka declared under oath before prosecutor Marcelo Soza in La Paz that Marinkovic had on several occasions given him money in closed envelopes to deliver to Hungarian-Croatian-Bolivian Eduardo Rozsa Flores who was shot by police in a raid on the Las Americas hotel in Santa Cruz on April 16th, 2009. The Bolivian government accuses the deceased Rozsa Flores of being an international mercenary paid by Santa Cruz leaders to assassinate President Morales.

Judelka said, “If I did not testify earlier it was because of pressure by Mr. Marinkovic’s lawyer, but in my testimony I said that I effectively carried money from Branko to the La Torre (accused terrorist cell led by Rozsa Flores), after that Mr. Orlando Justiniano asked me to take this money to a Mr. “Germán” who was really Rozsa Flores.”  The Bolivian government is accusing the Santa Cruz state government of organizing the La Torre group during the governorship of Rubén Costas. The government accuses the Santa Cruz leaders of diverting some of the $40 million dollars they collected to finance Santa Cruz autonomy to hiring foreign mercenaries like Rozsa Flores to form a terrorist militia. Judelka added, “I do not know how much money was in the envelopes I took (to Rozsa Flores) and I don’t know if it was in Bolivianos or Dollars.”
In the pre-dawn hours of the morning of April 16th, 2009, an elite Bolivian police force police raided the Las Americas Hotel and killed Eduardo  Rózsa Flores, Irish security guard Michael Dwyer and Romanian Árpád Magyarosi. In addition police captured Bolivian-Croatian Mario Tádic Astorga and Hungarian Elöd Tóaso. In a video interview with a Hungarian TV station that Eduardo  Rózsa Flores stipulated only be released upon the event of his death, Rózsa Flores is shown explaining that he is returning to his homeland, Santa Cruz, at the behest of civic leaders to defend Santa Cruz against pro-government groups.  The triple killing by police caused an international stir.  Branko Marinkovic has fled Bolivia and his whereabouts are unknown.  Ireland, Hungary, and Croatia are demanding an international investigation into the deaths their citizens.

To learn more in English and Spanish see:

http://www.erbol.com.bo/noticia.php?identificador=2147483925682

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/0425/1224245355070.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Rozsa-Flores

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4 Comments so far

  1. Morales rechazó consideraciones de la JIFE sobre la hoja de coca | Noticias Minuto a Minuto on March 18, 2010 4:40 am

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  2. Magyarosi Árpád Fiúka's mom on March 18, 2010 6:09 am

    http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2009/wha/136102.htm
    “On April 16, an elite police unit raided a downtown Santa Cruz hotel and shot and killed three alleged terrorists–Bolivian-Hungarian Eduardo Rozsa-Flores, Hungarian Arpad Magyarosi, and Irishman Michael Dwyer–and arrested two others–Mario Tadic, a Croatian, and Elod Toaso, a Hungarian. The government claimed Rozsa-Flores led a group recruited by the political opposition that intended to assassinate President Morales and assist in the secession of the department of Santa Cruz. Opposition leaders denied these charges and claimed the government itself recruited or quickly infiltrated the group and then executed the three men so they could not discuss government involvement. An official congressional inquiry found that police acted lawfully and disrupted a terrorist cell. A report by opposition commission members questioned the majority findings and the circumstances of the terrorist deaths.”

  3. Magyarosi Árpád Fiúka's mom on March 18, 2010 6:13 am

    Magyarosi Árpád was assassinated by a group of assassins cops (militars? from Venezuela??) in a hotel Las Americas during being asleep in the Bolivian Santa Cruz .
    Arpad was invited for a 1-month visit to Bolivia by his friend from his childhood, Toaso Elod now in prison. He was a university student in Hungary. He bought his own ticket on his own money. He arrived to Viru Viru airport (Santa Cruz). About his personality: he was very calm, with high knowledge in arts, was a teacher, he could not and would not commit either in his head anything he is accused of!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhQ8VEBIXfk

    http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2009/wha/136102.htm
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df3-mVxCdMU
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4AuJWqiE-g
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUlwV19wul0

  4. Magyarosi Árpád Fiúka's mom on March 20, 2010 8:02 am

    Kudelka en el avion presidencial!!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7py3akSumbk

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