Judge Soledad Barrueto Guerrero today rejected the prosecutor’s request to extend the impediment to leaving the country against the former president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK)investigated for the crime of unfair collusion in the Interoceanic Highway case, whose construction was in charge of the Odebrecht company.
This is the second process involving PPK in which the Judiciary rejects a request from the Prosecutor’s Office to retain the former president in national territory. At the beginning of FebruaryA similar measure was revoked in the case of irregular contributions to the 2016 presidential campaign.
#Last. Judge Soledad Barrueto rejects the request to extend the impediment to leaving the country against Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and José Ortiz, investigated for the crime of collusion.
– Judicial Power Peru (@Poder_Judicial_) February 18, 2023
exactly one year ago, the prosecutor José Domingo Pérez managed to issue the impediment to Kuczynski for the Interoceanic case. This time he had a setback.
According to the prosecution, when PPK presided over the Board of Directors of Proinversión -when he was Minister of Economy during the government of Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006)- there would have been “allegedly defrauded the State by arranging with the representatives of the Odebrecht company and associates, as well as public officials to favor it in the concession process of the IIRSA SUR Interoceanic Road Corridor Project, sections 2 and 3, causing patrimonial damage to the State, being that from the development of the facts exposed we find the following irregularities noted as indications of coordination”.
