The vice president of Nicaragua's Supreme Court, Rafael Solís, renounced his immunity to allow an investigation into allegations of his involvement in a wide-reaching land fraud scandal.

The Attorney General's Office is investigating accusations from a former state attorney who has publicly accused Solís and other high-up public officials of land trafficking on Nicaragua's Central Pacific coast.

“Solis has put his immunity on hold so they can investigate him for land trafficking. It now depends on the Attorney General's Office,” said Supreme Court spokesman Mamely Ferreti. Ferreti told The Nica Times that Solís denies the allegations.

Former notary public Morena Avilés Serrano is alleging that Solís is involved in illegal land transfers, involving false signatures and stamps, of property that was handed over from the state to a group of ex-contra guerillas in the 1990s. Her allegations, made at the Nicaraguan Human Rights Center, also implicate a legislator, a Managua appeals judge and other officials at the Attorney General's Office, who all deny the allegations. Avilés told the daily La Prensa that she has received threatening phone calls since she went public with the allegations.