MANAGUA: The director of Nicaragua's national beauty pageant and two members of her family were accused of 'treason' on Friday, two weeks after a Nicaraguan woman seen as a symbol of the Central American country's opposition to the government was crowned Miss Universe.

A police statement said Karen Celebertti, her husband and her son — all owners of the Miss Nicaragua pageant — had actively participated 'in the terrorist actions of the failed coup attempt,' a reference to the 2018 mass protests against President Daniel Ortega.