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Viewing cable 06MANAGUA803, VISAS DONKEY: REQUEST FOR CORRUPTION 212(F) VISA
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FM AMEMBASSY MANAGUA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 5919
INFO RHEHNSC/NSC WASHINGTON DC
C O N F I D E N T I A L MANAGUA 000803
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR INL/C/P, CA/VO/L/C, WHA/CEN, WHA/PPC
E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/03/2036
TAGS: CVIS PREL PGOV KCOR KCRM EFIN NU
SUBJECT: VISAS DONKEY: REQUEST FOR CORRUPTION 212(F) VISA
INELIGIBILITY FINDINGS--ROBERTO ERASMO CEDENO MENDOZA AND
AMINTA OROZCO REYES DE CEDENO
REF: A. 04 STATE 45499
¶B. 04 MANAGUA 2808
¶C. 04 STATE 242524
¶D. 05 MANAGUA 345
¶E. 05 MANAGUA 259
¶F. 05 MANAGUA 260
Classified By: AMBASSADOR PAUL TRIVELLI. REASONS 1.4 (B,D).
¶1. (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Embassy is seeking a
security advisory opinion under section 212 (f) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act, proclamation 7750,
suspending the entry into the United States by Roberto Erasmo
Cedeno Borgen, born in Nicaragua on November 25, 1938 and by
Aminta Orozco Reyes de Cedeno, born in Nicaragua on October
26, 1943. Roberto Erasmo Cedeno Borgen is the former Mayor
of Managua and a close political and business associate of
former President Arnoldo Aleman, who was convicted of
corruption in December 2003 and sentenced to twenty years
imprisonment for his crimes.
¶2. (C) Aminta Orozco Reyes de Cedeno is Cedeno's wife and a
beneficiary of his participation in Aleman's corruption.
Cedeno served as a town councilman and, later, as Deputy
Mayor of Managua during Aleman's term as Mayor (1990-1996)
and was subsequently elected as Mayor (1997-2001) in his own
right with Aleman's support. Throughout his period in the
municipal government of Managua (1990-2001), Cedeno committed
numerous acts of official corruption, some in cooperation
with Aleman and others on his own. These corrupt acts
benefited Cedeno, his wife and family, Aleman, and other
corrupt associates.
¶3. (C) While president, Arnoldo Aleman was the linchpin in
several high-level corruption schemes that defrauded the
Nicaraguan state of reportedly over USD 100 million. Cedeno
participated in some of these corruption schemes and
developed his own in the Managua mayor's office. Since he
and Aleman left office in 2001-2002, Cedeno has returned to
the private sector, but he remains an active supporter of
Aleman in the Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) and helps
the ex-president to retain total control of the party. The
massive corruption of which Cedeno was an integral part
caused serious damage for U.S. national interests in the
stability of democratic institutions in Nicaragua, U.S.
foreign assistance goals, and the international economic
activities of U.S. businesses.
¶4. (C) Along with other corrupt associates, Cedeno and
Aleman continue to damage all of these national interests by
working to free the corrupt ex-president, undermine the
government of President Enrique Bolanos, and place all of the
country's government institutions under their control. For
all of these reasons, the Department has already found
Arnoldo Aleman to be ineligible to enter the United States
under INA 212 (f). Post recommends that the Department now
issue a 212 (f) finding against Roberto Erasmo Cedeno Borgen,
and his wife, Aminta Orozco Reyes de Cedeno, who has
benefited from her husband's corrupt acts. The following
provides information requested in reftel A, paragraph 16.
END SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST.
PROCLAMATION INCLUDES DEPENDENTS AND IMMIGRANTS
--------------------------------------------- --
¶5. (U) Sections 1a through 1c of the presidential
proclamation suspend the entry into the United States, as
immigrants or nonimmigrants, of corrupt public officials and
former public officials whose acts of corruption have had
serious adverse effects on the national interests of the
United States. Section 1(d) then goes on to suspend the
entry of, "...spouses, children, and dependent household
members of persons described in paragraphs (a), (b), and (c)
above, who are beneficiaries of any articles of monetary
value or other benefits obtained by such persons."
¶6. (U) Reftel A also contained a series of questions and
answers on the proclamation as additional guidance for posts.
The answer to question eight specifies that, "the
proclamation specifically covers corrupt officials, those who
corrupt them, and their dependents. The inclusion of
dependents - those who benefit from corruption - is
consistent with other provisions of visa law that target
activities that generate illicit funding. For example, we
also extend visa ineligibility to the dependents of
controlled substance traffickers, to ensure that the
traffickers and their family cannot benefit from ill-gotten
gains by sending family members to the United States."
ARNOLDO ALEMAN'S CORRUPTION ALREADY DOCUMENTED AND HIS VISA
REVOKED
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¶7. (C) Arnoldo Aleman, who until January 10, 2002, served as
Nicaragua's President, is currently serving a twenty year
sentence for being the linchpin of several high
level-corruption schemes to defraud the Nicaraguan government
of reportedly over USD 100 million while he was President.
The elaborate financial schemes orchestrated by Aleman
involved the transfer of public funds from the accounts of
various government agencies to the accounts of shell foreign
corporations set up for the sole purpose of defrauding the
GON. Aleman and several of his associates have been
convicted of various corruption crimes against the state,
including embezzlement, misappropriation of public funds,
money laundering, and conspiracy to commit these crimes.
Reftel B described Aleman's corruption activities in detail,
as well as the mass of evidence against the ex-President. In
reftel C, the Department issued a 212 (f) finding against
Aleman. Prior to this decision, the Department had already
revoked the visas of Aleman and three of his main
co-conspirators under INA 212 (a)(2)(I).
ROBERTO CEDENO'S PARTNERSHIP WITH ALEMAN AND HIS CORRUPTION
IN THE MANAGUA MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT
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¶8. (C) Roberto Cedeno was a founding member of Aleman's PLC,
and is a long-time friend and associate of the ex-president.
When Aleman served as Mayor of Managua from 1990 to 1996,
Cedeno was initially a member of the municipal council, but
Aleman later appointed him to serve as his Deputy Mayor.
Since Cedeno proved a loyal instrument of Aleman's will and a
partner in his corruption schemes, in 1996 Aleman nominated
Cedeno to be his party's candidate for Mayor of Managua, even
as Aleman himself ran for the presidency. Both were elected,
and Cedeno became Mayor of Managua in January 1997, at the
same time that Aleman was inaugurated as President of
Nicaragua.
¶9. (C) When Cedeno first entered government service as a
Managua city councilman in 1990, he signed a legal financial
probity document stating that his personal assets totaled USD
5,000. However, when he signed another such document after
being elected mayor in 1996, he claimed assets of USD 1.3
million. The discrepancy between the two documents provoked
an uproar, with the Controller General's office (Contraloria)
asking how Cedeno's assets could increase so dramatically in
the space of six years when his only stated sources of income
were his salaries as town councilman and Deputy Mayor.
Cedeno claimed that he had possessed the larger total of
assets all along, but had concealed them in 1990 for fear
that the Sandinistas might return to power and steal them
from him. While many Nicaraguans did conceal some of their
assets in the early 1990s for this reason, it was clear that
Cedeno owned nothing close to USD 1.3 million in assets in
1990, and he never offered a convincing explanation for the
newfound wealth that he reported in 1996. However, with
Cedeno enjoying the protection of Aleman, the Contraloria
ultimately accepted his dubious argument and assigned Cedeno
only "administrative" (rather than criminal) penalties for
misrepresenting his net worth in his 1990 probity statement.
¶10. (C) While Deputy Mayor and Mayor of Managua, Cedeno
participated in numerous schemes involving illegal
sole-source contracts for city services. Many of these cases
involved road construction, in which contracts were awarded
to shell companies owned by Aleman and/or his cronies, which
either carried out the construction themselves, doing a very
poor job, or subcontracted to genuine construction companies,
but skimming off large amounts of taxpayer money. Another of
Aleman's cronies in the Managua municipal government involved
in these schemes to steal money from the city budget was
Victor Guerrero, whose visa was revoked under INA 212f in
¶2005. The cases that follow in paragraphs 9-11 were already
reported in reftel D, but are repeated here for the
convenience of the Department.
¶11. (C) In 1999 Cedeno and director of public works Victor
Guerrero ignored laws requiring public solicitation of all
government contracts and approved twenty-two different
contracts with SOLECTRA Industrial Anonymous Society worth 2
million cordobas (USD 125,000) to provide the city with
garbage containers. SOLECTRA was owned by Juan Solorzano
Castillo, the brother of Pedro Solorzano, a prominent member
of the Managua city council. Investigations by the media
revealed that SOLECTRA was a dummy corporation whose only
resource was a single warehouse where garbage containers were
stored after they were purchased from the real manufacturer
at a much lower price than that at which SOLECTRA sold the
containers to the municipal government. Such a
subcontracting arrangement was in direct violation of the
contract that Cedeno signed with SOLECTRA.
¶12. (C) When the Contraloria sought to investigate the
SOLECTRA case, Cedeno and Guerrero refused to provide it
copies of relevant documentation. Such a refusal was
illegal, but Cedeno and Guerrero were able to defy the
Contraloria thanks to the support of Aleman. Even without
their cooperation, the Contraloria went ahead with its
investigation and concluded that Cedeno, Guerrero and the
other conspirators should face criminal charges and be fined
as much as 8 million cordobas (USD 500,000) for their
actions. Then-Attorney General Julio Centeno Gomez (another
Aleman crony whose visa was revoked under INA 212f in 2005),
did his best to block any criminal charges by declaring that
the state was not "offended" and had not suffered a loss due
to Cedeno's actions, but the Contraloria brought criminal
charges on its own. In 2000, a Managua judge ultimately
found Cedeno guilty of fraud and misuse of public funds.
However, Cedeno appealed the verdict as far as the Supreme
Court in 2001, where Aleman's PLC magistrates negotiated a
deal with their Sandinista counterparts whereby Cedeno's
conviction was overturned.
¶13. (C) On another occasion in 1999, Cedeno and Guerrero
used city equipment, workers, and construction materials to
construct a private road for Aleman crony and then-Central
Bank Director Noel Ramirez. At the time, Ramirez (whose visa
was revoked under INA 212f in 2005) was using stolen GON
funds to construct a huge 800,000 USD mansion in Managua and
wanted new and improved roads constructed around it (reftel
E). Even though these roads were (obviously) not in the city
budget approved by the municipal council, Cedeno and Guerrero
spent 10,000 USD of city funds to build them for Ramirez.
Cedeno and Guerrero did this at a time when an estimated 70
percent of planned municipal projects were left undone
because of budget shortfalls. On other occasions, (non-PLC)
members of the Managua city council regularly accused Cedeno
and Guerrero of renting out construction equipment belonging
to the city government and pocketing the proceeds.
¶14. (C) Cedeno and Guerrero were also involved in another
corruption and contract solicitation scandal in 2000, shortly
before they left the Managua city government, when portions
of the newly completed "suburbana" highway in the capital
were washed away in mudslides, damaging and destroying the
homes of nearby residents in the process. The city contract
for the construction of the new highway had been given to the
state-owned Rural Development Institute (IDR), which was led
by Aleman-crony Eduardo Mena (whose visa was revoked under
INA 212f in 2005) and served as one of the president's
primary vehicles for the theft and laundering of GON funds
(reftel F). Although the city of Managua paid over 6 million
USD for the construction of the highway, the IDR did shoddy
work and failed to construct the drains, gutters and ditches
necessary to protect the new highway and nearby residences
during Nicaragua's annual six-month long rainy season. As
Mayor and Director of Public Works, Cedeno and Guerrero were
ultimately responsible for inspecting the quality of the
IDR's work, but they never brought any claims against it,
even when the first rains it experienced produced massive
damage and huge costs for the city.
¶15. (C) When Cedeno took office as Mayor in 1997 he
persuaded the PLC and FSLN caucuses that dominated the city
council to increase his salary by 150 percent, raising it to
USD 10,000 per month, an astronomical figure for the second
poorest country in the hemisphere, and, as the media noted,
much more than the Mayor of Miami-Dade County made at the
time. At the time Cedeno raised his salary, the municipal
government was deep in financial arrears, and was seeking
additional funds from the central government to cover basic
municipal services. Cedeno arranged for the salary increase
to take place when he was out of the country, so that he
could claim that he had nothing to do with it, but the public
outcry forced him and the city council (whose salaries were
indexed to that of the mayor) to reverse the pay hikes. At
the time, Aleman publicly defended Cedeno, claiming that
sky-high government salaries were the "only way to avoid
corruption."
¶16. (C) Thus thwarted in his effort to increase his salary
in a nominally legal manner, Cedeno turned to illegal
methods. He began secretly using the municipal budget to pay
all of the electrical, water, gas, and telephone bills at his
two Managua residences, one of which was owned by him and the
other by his wife, Aminta Orozco. When word of this practice
leaked to the media in 1999, and the daily newspaper El Nuevo
Diario published copies of Cedeno's utility bills paid by the
municipal government on his orders, Cedeno admitted
everything. He tried to justify his use of taxpayer funds to
pay his personal bills by claiming that "everyone does it"
and complaining that his "low" monthly salary of USD 4,000
was simply insufficient to support his and his wife's
lifestyles and their two residences.
¶17. (C) With a compliant city council and the support of
Aleman, no official investigation of Cedeno's use of city
funds to pay all his private phone and utility bills ever
took place, and Cedeno continued to use city funds to pay for
such bills through the end of his term. Because there was no
formal investigation, the total amount of funds that Cedeno
stole in this manner is unknown, but individual utility bills
published by El Nuevo Diario in 1999 were as large as 14,000
cordobas (approximately USD 800 today, but much more at the
time) for individual monthly phone bills at one of Cedeno's
two residences. El Nuevo Diario also published copies of
bloated municipal expense and "representation" accounts
benefiting Cedeno and several of Aleman's closest associates,
including Maria Haydee Osuna, Victor Guerrero, and Jose
Marenco (all of whose visas were revoked under INA 212f in
2005).
¶18. (C) As Mayor, Cedeno also established a shell
corporation (owned by the municipality) used to skim
municipal funds for use by himself, Aleman, other corrupt
associates, and PLC electoral campaigns. The Municipal
Corporation of Managua Markets (COMMEMA) was nominally formed
as a vehicle to funnel tax revenue raised from Managua
merchants to invest in the infrastructure of the city's
marketplaces. However, in reality, no such investment took
place, and Cedeno instead used COMMEMA as a slush fund for
personal and party purposes. Cedeno, Victor Guerrero, Maria
Haydee Osuna and other corrupt associates of Aleman
affiliated with the municipal government used COMMEMA to pay
for bogus expense accounts and "representation" vouchers in
the tens of thousands of dollars. COMMEMA also paid salaries
to "ghost employees" and "advisors" of the city government
who never worked a day for the city but were rewarded with
fake jobs for their loyalty to Aleman.
¶19. (C) Cedeno also transferred COMMEMA taxpayer funds
directly to the accounts of the PLC, where they were used to
fund electoral campaigns, including the unsuccessful 2000
Managua mayoral candidacy of Aleman loyalist Wilfredo
Navarro. During this campaign, Cedeno also illegally ordered
the use of municipal offices, vehicles and workers to support
Navarro, and COMMEMA funds paid the salaries of many of
Navarro's full-time campaign workers. Although the total
amount of COMMEMA funds that Cedeno stole or used for illegal
purposes is unknown, in 1999 El Nuevo Diario published
COMMEMA documents showing that at least 1.3 million cordobas
(USD 80,000) "disappeared" from COMMEMA accounts in 1997-1998
alone. Other municipal documents published by the newspaper
showed that millions of additional cordobas in city revenue
were transferred to COMMEMA for similarly dubious purposes.
Because of the protection of Aleman, no charges were ever
brought against Cedeno in the COMMEMA case.
¶20. (C) Since Cedeno left office in 2001, numerous civil
claims have been brought against him relating to alleged
fraudulent purchase and sale of municipal land. In some of
these cases, Cedeno is accused of having sold the same piece
of municipal property to multiple buyers, while in others he
is accused of fraudulently "selling" municipal properties to
shell companies owned by himself and others. Although he has
not held elected office since 2001, Cedeno remains a close
friend of Arnoldo Aleman and an active supporter of Aleman
within the PLC. In his capacity as a PLC convention member,
Cedeno has served as one of Aleman's enforcers of loyalty in
the party. Aleman uses the 750 voting members of the
national PLC convention to provide a fig leaf of democracy in
the party, but all the convention members, including Cedeno,
owe their positions to Aleman and serve as nothing more than
rubber stamps for Aleman's decisions.
SERIOUS ADVERSE EFFECT ON U.S. NATIONAL INTEREST
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¶21. (C) The massive corruption of Arnoldo Aleman, Roberto
Erasmo Cedeno Borgen and their other associates, specifically
their theft of tens of millions of dollars from Nicaraguan
institutions and their efforts to launder some of the money
in U.S. banks, had serious adverse effects on those U.S.
interests specified in the Presidential Proclamation as well
as U.S. foreign policy priorities highlighted in the
Embassy's Mission Program Plan (MPP). The Embassy has
encouraged Nicaragua to prosecute officials for corruption
and has provided financial and technical support in
corruption cases, including that of Aleman himself.
President Bolanos has made the imprisonment of Aleman, the
recovery of stolen assets and a wider anti-corruption
campaign the cornerstones of his presidency. Since his
conviction, Aleman, who still enjoys vast political influence
in the country, has worked incessantly through Cedeno and
other corrupt associates in the PLC and other institutions to
further undermine all of Nicaragua's democratic institutions,
including the presidency, the National Assembly and the
judiciary, all in an effort to have his conviction erased,
regain the frozen assets they stole from the Nicaraguan
state, and maintain political power.
¶22. (C) Stability of Democratic Institutions: The Embassy's
top priority is strengthening and consolidating democracy
through the development of transparent, accountable and
professional governmental institutions, including the
judiciary. Our MPP states that "... abuse of power,
corruption and politicization of many state institutions,
especially the judiciary, have impeded the consolidation of
democracy and economic growth." A judicial system subject to
political and corrupting influences undermines democracy and
could lead to instability. The actions of Arnoldo Aleman,
Cedeno and their associates have contributed directly to the
widespread belief in Nicaragua that justice comes from
political bosses and can be bought and sold. This attitude
has undermined confidence in the system. In addition to
working for Aleman's release from imprisonment, Aleman and
Cedeno's actions have helped other corrupt figures, including
Cedeno himself, to elude justice. Additionally, a judiciary
free of corruption is necessary for improving the ability of
the GON to investigate and prosecute those guilty of
international criminal activities that can have a direct
impact on United States homeland security, such as money
laundering, human trafficking or terrorism.
¶23. (C) Foreign Assistance Goals: One of the top three USG
foreign assistance goals in Nicaragua is strengthening
democracy. The chief goals of USAID assistance in this area
are battling corruption and effecting judicial reform.
Aleman and Cedeno's actions have directly damaged progress in
both of these areas. In December 2003, the USG froze USD 49
million of judicial assistance in response to endemic
judicial corruption, highlighted by what appeared to be an
imminent fraudulent "not guilty" verdict for Aleman, due to
backroom dealing between Sandinista (FSLN) leader Daniel
Ortega and the corrupt ex-president. Thanks to corrupt
members of the PLC such as Cedeno, Aleman retains near total
control of the party and its caucus in the National Assembly
and uses this power to negotiate with Ortega. Without
co-dependent cronies such as Cedeno in the PLC and the
Assembly, Aleman would not be able to control the PLC caucus
and use it to negotiate with Ortega and corrupt all the other
institutions of the state that are under the Assembly's
supervision, including the Controller General's Office, the
judiciary, and the Supreme Electoral Council, among others.
¶24. (C) International Activity of U.S. Businesses: Corrupt
Nicaraguan institutions hamper U.S. investment in Nicaragua
and discourage U.S. exporters from establishing
agent/distributor relationships. U.S. investors and
business-people are reluctant to risk their resources in
Nicaragua, knowing they could easily be subjected to the
vagaries of a corrupt judiciary or the whims of politicians
should they become involved in any commercial dispute, real
or trumped up. By stealing over a hundred million dollars
from the Nicaraguan state and subsequently trying to
manipulate the presidency, judiciary, and the National
Assembly behind the scenes in order to erase Aleman's
conviction and keep their ill-gotten gains, Aleman, Cedeno
and their associates have contributed directly to the erosion
of confidence of the business community in all of Nicaragua's
democratic institutions.
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¶25. (C) Roberto Erasmo Cedeno Borgen and Aminta Orozco Reyes
de Cedeno have been informed of the fact that they may be
covered by Presidential Proclamation number 7750, under
section 212 (f) of the INA.
¶26. (C) Roberto Erasmo Cedeno Borgen and Aminta Orozco Reyes
de Cedeno have been issued numerous B1/B2 visas over the
years, but they do not presently possess valid visas. On
March 29, 2006, Cedeno and Orozco applied for legal permanent
residence status in the United States, based on an immigrant
visa petition submitted by Orozco's sister. These
applications for LPR status were refused under INA P212f in
order to allow time for post to submit an advisory opinion
request to the Department.
¶27. (C) Post recommends that the Department make a 212f
ineligibility finding for Roberto Erasmo Cedeno Borgen and
Aminta Orozco Reyes de Cedeno and that no (rpt no) further
travel be allowed to the United States.
TRIVELLI