A few hours after meeting each other the admission of a constitutional grievance appeal in the Constitutional Court (TC), presented by Keiko Fujimori’s defense to archive the Cocktails caseprosecutor Rafael Vela said that what is sought is that “the oral trial does not continue.”
“It is part of the strategy to prevent the oral trial from not continuing. It is perfectly possible. A week ago we were dealing with the possibility of being suspended from our positions – prosecutor Pérez and my case – and also affecting the development of the oral trial,” Vela said on RPP.
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“The Constitutional Court, as the highest hierarchical body, autonomous in the interpretation of the constitutionality of laws and which resolves claims for guarantees, can also perfectly affect what would be the development of the oral trial and of course that is a concern,” said Vela.
GIULLIANA LOZA’S APPEAL
The day after the Cocteles case began, on July 2, it is recalled, the Constitutional Court (TC) admitted the appeal for constitutional grievance filed, a month earlier, on June 19, by Giulliana Loza, lawyer for the leader of Fuerza Popular, Keiko Fujimori.
This is the constitutional grievance appeal filed by Giulliana Loza.
This is to annul three resolutions and archive the aforementioned case.
The first resolution that Loza requests to be archived is resolution No. 35 (incident 186), dated September 12, 2022, issued by the Fourth National Preparatory Investigation Court, which declared unfounded the exception of inadmissibility of action brought by the beneficiary’s defense for the crime of money laundering.
Habeas corpus presented by Keiko Fujimori.
The second is resolution No. 46 (incident 186), dated October 6, 2022, issued by the Fourth National Preparatory Investigation Court, which declared unfounded the exception of inadmissibility of action brought by the defense of the beneficiary for the crime of criminal organization.
And the third and last is resolution No. 110 (incident 186), dated November 10, 2023, issued by the Fourth National Preparatory Investigation Court, which ordered the issuance of an indictment against him for the alleged commission of the crime of money laundering.
This request is supported —the document states— by the content of resolution No. 2 dated May 16, 2024, notified on June 5 of this year, issued by the Third Constitutional Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of Lima, which revoked the judgment issued by resolution No. 4, dated April 1 of this year, which declared the habeas corpus petition unfounded.
“As a result, the nullity of all previous acts of the aforementioned process from the beginning of the preliminary proceedings carried out in fiscal file No. 55-2017 (accumulated fiscal file 80-2017 and 12-2016) is declared,” is Loza’s final request, written in the document.
According to this newspaper, there is still no date for a hearing at the Constitutional Court to review the appeal.
COCKTAILS CASE
On the other hand, the fifth hearing of the trial of the Cocteles case, which is being investigated by the Third National Criminal Court of Lima, will resume next Monday, the 22nd.
Last Tuesday, the 16th, was the last hearing.
Peru21 He reported that what was most striking about that day was that Mark Vito’s defense did not appear.
On Monday 15th, Fuerza Popular’s lawyer, Christian Salas, announced that Jaime Villanueva, former advisor to the former Attorney General Patricia Benavides, and friend of prosecutor José Domingo Pérez, will be his witness in this case.
This, to demonstrate that the case “was fabricated.”
On Wednesday 10th, prosecutor José Domingo Pérez announced that the amount of civil compensation that the 42 defendants will have to pay, if they are found guilty, is S/151 million.
