Luis Mejía Lecca, a lawyer, former treasurer and former legal representative of the Fujimori political party Fuerza 2011, now Fuerza Popular, was excluded from the trial in the cocktail case due to a serious incurable illness that has him bedridden, without the full use of his physical and mental faculties.
He Third Collegiate Criminal Courtcomposed of judges Juana Mercedes Caballero Garcia, Nayko Coronado Salazar and Max Vengoa Valdiglesias, made the decision to exclude Lecca, in the virtual hearing held this Wednesday, August 7, after receiving reports from specialists at the Institute of Legal Medicine on his state of health and listening to the position of prosecutor José Domingo Pérez and his defense attorney, Jeny Vilcatoma.
In addition, it was decided that he will be re-evaluated every nine months by the medical examiners to see how he is progressing and to determine whether he can ever face a public trial. If his situation remains irreversible, the case against him will eventually be shelved.
Judge Mercedes Caballero, president of the Collegiate Criminal Court and director of debates
Forensic doctors Luis Salas Mayta and Melisa Pinto Echegaray They visited him in the hospital and certified that he had suffered an accident. acute cerebrovascular accident (CVA) which keeps him bedridden, in a state of semi-consciousness, his health condition is irreversible and will continue to deteriorate, without the ability to move and with a very limited level of consciousness.
Frustrated collaboration
In November 2018, the preliminary investigation judge Richard Concepción Carhuancho imposed 36 months of preventive detention for Luis Mejía Leccaformer alternate treasurer and former legal representative of Fuerza 2011 and Fuerza Popular in 2016.
While in prison, With the assistance of attorney Raúl Noblecilla, Mejía Lecca sought to benefit from effective collaboration.
He stated that on December 7, 2017, Mrs. Ana Herz de Vega asked him to check her house in La Molina for documents that could compromise her in order to make them disappear..
Lecca entrusted this search to Shirley Montenegro and Melissa Sánchez. These people found an envelope with 2010 raffles and other unused documents, which he proceeded to burn.
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Yeni Vilcatoma, Luis Mejia’s lawyer
Furthermore, according to his current lawyer Yeni Vilcatoma, at the request of the prosecution, when he was held in the Miguel Castro Castro prison, Mejia Lecca would have influenced Luis Nava so that he may be eligible for effective collaboration and testify against former President Alan García, who is now deceased.
In January 2019, the Court of Appeals revoked Mejía’s pretrial detention and he was released. Meanwhile, the effective collaboration process was not concluded and was archived. The prosecutor requested, in writing, a sentence of 22 years and 10 months in prison for him.The accusation against him was not supported orally in the hearings held last July.
