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Cerimedo’s lawyer announces new legal actions to block transfer to La Paz

From El Deber · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

At a glance

News Named sources In the courts
  • Fernando Cerimedo’s defense plans further legal action to prevent his transfer from Santa Cruz to Chonchocoro prison in La Paz.
  • Lawyer Ernesto Giraldes argued that an earlier preventive detention order issued in Santa Cruz should take precedence over a later order from a La Paz court.
  • A court rejected a freedom action challenging the transfer, but prison authorities had not yet formally received the transfer order.

Fernando Cerimedo’s defense says it will pursue new legal measures to stop his transfer to Chonchocoro prison in La Paz, even after a court rejected an action seeking to block the move.

Lawyer Ernesto Giraldes said the Santa Cruz legal team had not known in advance about the freedom action filed by Cerimedo’s lawyers in La Paz. He nevertheless said the defense would continue looking for lawful ways to prevent the transfer. “We, the legal team, are looking at preventing the transfer, but legally, through legal actions,” Giraldes told reporters after the hearing.

We, the legal team, are looking at preventing the transfer, but legally, through legal actions.

· Ernesto GiraldesCerimedo’s lawyer described the defense’s plan after the court hearing.

Giraldes also said Cerimedo was emotionally affected by his situation and repeated the defense’s argument that the transfer could put him at risk. “It will take time, but we will see. God willing, that transfer will not be carried out,” he said.

It will take time, but we will see. God willing, that transfer will not be carried out.

· Ernesto GiraldesHe discussed the defense’s hope of stopping the transfer to La Paz.

The defense points to two preventive detention orders issued in separate cases. A Santa Cruz judge ordered the first on Aug. 21, 2026, in a case involving the alleged attempted feminicide of Cerimedo’s former partner, Nadia Beller. That order requires him to remain at Palmasola prison. A La Paz judge issued the second on Aug. 29 in an investigation into alleged illicit enrichment affecting the state, ordering 180 days of preventive detention at Chonchocoro.

Giraldes argues that the earlier order must be enforced first. He said the law does not clearly explain how preventive detention should be carried out when different courts order detention in different prisons. Although the court upheld Cerimedo’s detention at Chonchocoro, the transfer still requires formal notification to prison authorities. Palmasola’s administration said it had not received that order, which is needed to prepare the security operation. Giraldes did not disclose the defense’s next appeal.

There are two preventive detention orders, and the first one ordered must be carried out, the one dated Aug. 21, 2026, not the one dated Aug. 29.

· Ernesto GiraldesHe argued that the Santa Cruz order should take precedence over the later La Paz order.
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Originally published by El Deber in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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