The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, was submitted Monday to a DNA test to determine whether or not a parent of a child of eight or nine years that his former partner Gabriela Zapata appeared before a judge and the president allegedly believed dead sick after birth in 2007.
Morales went to the Institute of Forensic Research (IDIF) of the Office of La Paz, and while visiting the company was protected by two barriers formed by more than sixty policemen, led by national commander, Colonel Edgar Tellez, who cut access third place, according to Efe.
The president spent more than half an hour in the IDIF with their lawyers and advocates presence of Zapata, who claimed that standard samples should have been taken simultaneously with the alleged father, the mother and child.
According to Zapata's lawyers, William Sanchez and Eduardo Leon, have not met the standard and a court order to that effect the act must be annulled and repeated later.
The police officers did not allow Zapata, who was in custody, enter the IDIF when the president was still in place and led to a riot police unit nearby to wait.
They also prevented the doctor Raul Caballero, hired by Zapata, crossed the police line to witness the taking of samples.
When they finally entered the IDIF Zapata, he refused to take her blood samples with the argument that the judge in the case ordered a simultaneous examination and not separately, as attorney said Sanchez.
The former partner of Morales was transferred back to prison Miraflores, where he is accused of several alleged economic crimes, including illicit enrichment, on suspicion that he used offices of the Ministry of the Presidency for negotiations with investors that reclusive obtained kickbacks.
According to Sanchez, the DNA test did not correspond in this case because the current trial stems from a lawsuit the president against Zapata for alleged "psychological violence" against children, arguing that the child was away from his father.
The lawyers of President Morales filed suit in early March against Zapata, after relatives of this will ensure that the child was alive and had between eight and nine years old, contradicting the president who said that the child died from an illness after being born .
Morales and Zapata were a couple when he was about 47 and she was about twenty years and was part of the youth of the ruling, Movement Toward Socialism party (MAS).
Since last February a journalist to reveal the relationship between Morales and Zapata and had a son, the case has been complicated to the extent that the child's existence was in doubt and has been involved in several controversial government ministers.
In addition, in parallel, a commission formed in Congress by the ruling and opposition investigating whether Zapata got the CAMCE Chinese state company, which was commercial manager until March, was favored illegally with state contracts worth millions.
In recent years, CAMCE has signed with the Morales government contracts for 566 million dollars, almost all direct without tender invitation, as has denounced the opposition.