PAC Assemblyman arrested during World Cup for child sex back in Costa Rica

October 8^th, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) Olger Ulate Ulate, the 55-year-old PAC Assemblyman from Guanacaste who was arrested in Brazil on June 18^th on charges of having sex with a transvestite minor, is back in Costa Rica, according to the daily La Nacion, citing information provided my immigration authorities.

According to authorities, Ulate, who had been in Brazil for the World Cup, was facing four to ten years in Brazilian prison if convicted on the charges.  The conditions under which Ulate was released by Brazilian authorities was not immediately clear.

PAC officials in Costa Rica strongly condemned Ulate’s alleged actions shortly after his arrest was reported in June.

“The Citizen Action Party repudiates, as much as humanly possible, this kind of activity,” said PAC president, Olivier Perez at the time.

According to reports in Brazil, Ulate was arrested after reporting to Tourism Police that he had been robbed of $1,500, an iPhone, and his passport.  Apparently Ulate led police to the minor as the suspect.

The 16-year-old minor, who is a transvestite, told police that she was a prostitute and that Ulate, intoxicated, refused to pay her after having sex, and admitted to stealing his valuables.

Ulate claimed he was unaware that the prostitute was a minor.

Ulate is from Tilarán, Guanacaste.