The Police activated the search for businessman Alejandro Sánchez, a friend and ex-financier of President Pedro Castillo, who also owns a property in the Lima district of Breña that the president had used since the electoral campaign. This happens after the Judiciary ordered that Sánchez be held in preventive detention for three years in the case called “Shadow Cabinet”, in which the Prosecutor’s Office is investigating him for crimes of criminal organization, aggravated collusion and influence peddling.
The Judicial Police and Inquiries Division, after receiving the documentation from the Judiciary, registered him in the requisition system for his capture in the country and began to create teams to locate and arrest him, the police institution reported to La República.
Likewise, Interpol Lima, a member of the International Criminal Police Organization, coordinates with the central office, located in France, to activate the red alert for Sánchez, that is, his international request, after reviewing the documents sent by the Peruvian authorities . The term to evaluate the documentation is from two days to a week.
Sánchez has been a fugitive since October 11, when the Fourth National Preparatory Investigation Court of the Judiciary ordered that preliminary detention be applied to him for 10 days. According to some police sources, he received a phone call that would have warned him of the monitoring of the Police and that they were seeking to comply with that arrest warrant.
The Prosecutor’s Office accuses Sánchez of being the financier and coordinator of a criminal organization led by Castillo in the Government Palace. According to the prosecutors in the case, this gang operated to enrich itself by distributing public positions and favoring businessmen.
Also involved in the case are other former government collaborators Salatiel Marrufo, Abel Cabrera, Auner Vásquez, Eder Viton Burga and Biberto Castillo, who were arrested last October.
On October 19, the Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of Lima confirmed the preliminary arrest warrant for those investigated in the case, who had appealed.
Preventive prison
Last Wednesday the 16th, Sánchez received a preventive detention order because the Fourth National Preparatory Investigation Court considered that there was a risk of him escaping and of hindering the investigation carried out by the Prosecutor’s Office.
Judge Víctor Zúñiga Urday, head of the court, accepted the request of the Prosecutor’s Office. He stressed that Sánchez is a fugitive and was not found in his home when he was given preliminary detention. In addition, he listed various indications of the charges against him.
It was mentioned that Sánchez was a mediator for the mining businessman Ulises Solís to achieve a meeting with Castillo just two days after promising her that appointment in September 2021.
Also the testimony of the former Vice Minister of Housing Elizabeth Añaños, who said that in 2021 she was taken to an apartment in the Lima district of Surquillo for a secret meeting in which Sánchez was present along with other people close to Castillo who expressed interest in works of that kind. sector.
Despite being in hiding, Sánchez reappeared at the virtual hearing, connected by the internet, to speak in his defense.
“I decided not to turn myself in to the Prosecutor’s Office because I have not committed a crime, it is natural to protect ourselves (…) I am obliged to remain hidden due to this persecution,” said Sánchez. The Prosecutor’s Office in charge estimates that the judicial sentence for Sánchez would be 19 years in prison.
Sarratea street. Use of Breña’s house was a contribution to Castillo. Photo: diffusion
Before, I did not have a request from the Police
The businessman Alejandro Sánchez, from the close environment of President Pedro Castillo, had no requisition despite the fact that he received a preliminary arrest warrant on October 11.
This would have been due to a lack of that provision from the Judiciary. With preventive detention, it has already been indicated that it be included in the requisition system, according to sources from the National Police.
Sanchez has not yet been included in the Rewards Program. It is up to the National Police to make the request to a commission of the Ministry of the Interior, which decides by voting. So far, that possibility has not been thought of, according to the sources.
