Judge John Pillaca declared unfounded the pretrial detention requirement requested by the Prosecutor’s Office against the leader of Peru Libre, Vladimir Cerrón, for the alleged illicit financing of the aforementioned organization. The former regional governor of Junín is charged with the alleged crimes of criminal organization and money laundering.
Instead, the magistrate imposed a bail of 20,000 soles and rules of conduct against the general secretary of the pencil party:
- Obligation not to be absent from the town where you reside without authorization from the court
- Do not travel abroad while the criminal process is in progress
- Appear every 30 days for the corresponding record
- Account for your activities
- Appear before the tax authority when summoned
- Prohibition of maintaining communication with witnesses, co-defendants or experts in the process.
All of this under the warning that the measure will be revoked and preventive detention ordered, upon request of the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
Judge Jhon Pillaca will read the resolution on the request for preventive detention for 36 months for the leader of Peru Libre, Vladimir Cerronin the framework of the investigation for the alleged illegal financing of his political organization. The hearing will be this Friday, November 25 from 7:00 p.m.
The judge’s announcement came after several virtual hearings. The prosecution and the defense of the former regional governor of Junín presented the arguments for and against the requested restrictions. If the decision were affirmative, the corresponding investigation would continue during the time that Cerrón Rojas was serving preventive detention.
According to the fiscal thesis, both members of Free Peru as relatives of Vladimir Cerrón they were involved in transfers, conversion and concealment of money from illicit payments that they would have received for the irregular adjudication in tenders and contracting of services in the Regional Government of Junín.
Prosecutor Richard Rojas supported the request for pretrial detention for 36 months in the penalty of up to 35 years in prison that the Perulibrista leader could receive, the danger of evasion of justice and possible interference in the process with witnesses and experts. Also, he maintained that Vladimir Cerron does not have work roots, since a work center is unknown after leaving EsSalud; nor domiciliary roots, due to the fact that he has declared various addresses in Lima and Huancayo.
Defense requests other measures
defense of Vladimir Cerron He asked the court to impose other restriction measures on his sponsor, such as restricted appearance, since, as he argued, the investigation has been carried out over a period of five years and Cerrón Rojas has attended all the summonses.
