Police in Bolivia today recovered a jewel-encrusted presidential medal which had been stolen the night before when its custodian was reportedly visiting a brothel.
The guard, identified by police as Lieutenant Roberto Juan de Dios Ortiz Blanco, had been meant to deliver the historic medal and a tricolor sash to the President Evo Morales to wear during his speech today in the central city of Cochabamba, according to a police report quoted by local media.
But his flight late Tuesday was delayed and the officer instead decided to visit various brothels, the report said.
"I entered a number of these different establishments (brothels) but then returned to where I left my motor car," the report quoted Ortiz as having told police. "When I got there my backpack, which held the emblems of the nation, had been taken." Police
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