“I was never part of any commission to advise or make decisions on the border road project,” Adrián Chinchilla, President Laura Chinchilla’s brother and a former adviser, told lawmakers on Tuesday during a Legislative Assembly commission investigating irregularities in the construction of a road along Costa Rica’s border with Nicaragua.
Two other presidential advisers, Carlos Espinach and Federico Baltodano, also attended the probe.
They also presented copies of retraction letters for similar statements made by La Nación journalist Vanessa Loaiza and former Culture Vice Minister Karina Bolaños.
Route 1856 is a 160-kilometer road that runs along Río San Juan on the border with Nicaragua, ordered by President Chinchilla to provide local residents with a transit route and an access road for police, following a dispute with Nicaragua over navigation rights on the river.