He Judiciary will evaluate on October 15 whether to authorize lifting the secrecy of the communications of the device with which the captain PNP Junior Izquierdobetter known as ‘Culebra’ recorded a conversation with the Minister of the Interior, Juan José Santiváñez. The hearing will take place virtually at 11:30 am and will be led by Supreme Judge Juan Carlos Checkley.
According to the request made by the Attorney General’s Office, the device was voluntarily delivered by the PNP agent, which is why he requested that “in due course, judicial authorization be required in order to access the information contained in the device provided.” .
For this reason, the public body requested the lifting of the secrecy of communications “in the form of authorization to identify originality, access, reading, viewing, extraction of information, transcription and printing of relevant content of said recording device.”
Audios between ‘Culebra’ and Juan José Santivañez
In the audio you hearSantivañeztell Junior Izquierdo in great detailknown as ‘Culebra’, what conditions were placed on him to be Minister of the Interior, as well as the pressures and presidential requests that basically aimed at the deactivation of the Diviac, a team that had become uncomfortable for the Government in the face of the advance of the investigations into Nicanor Boluarte, brother of the head of state. Another issue that concerned the president wasHarvey Colchado.
Snake:On two occasions he wants, he wants to close the DIVIAC.
Snake:It’s impossible, it’s impossible, damn.
Santiváñez:There they do denounce me as a bastard, with a shell. I have objected twice, idiot. To me, for example, Mónica Delta asks me: excuse me, do you think that Harvey Colchado is a good police officer? And I say: for me they are all good. That’s why my aunt called me, she screwed me up. What, how? how is it possible? You should have said no, you are a politicized police officer.
Santiváñez:Yes, yes. I tell him: no, I can’t. Why can’t you? First, because it is an organic unit, right?
According to the version offered by ‘Culebra’ toPublic Ministrythis conversation was recorded five days after Santiváñez was sworn in as Minister of the Interior. At a chifa in San Borja, on May 21, 2024, Juan José Santiváñez admitted that “anything goes to go up.”
Santiváñez:Dina asked me to close DIVIAC, twice. Until yesterday he told me that
Snake:It was logical that I impose impositions on you, that I impose conditions on you, now!
Santiváñez:I told him: I can’t, I can’t.
Santiváñez:Already. (Unintelligible) May God punish me if I lie, I swear to you. You know that anything goes to go up. He asked me: can you disable DIVIAC? I said: yes. I came in and now he’s asking me: you didn’t tell me that (unintelligible).
The owner of theMininterdenies that it is his voicethe one that appears in the audios, but does not deny his friendship with Captain Junior Izquierdo: “I do not recognize, first of all, the reliability of those supposed audios. For a simple reason, this man says – under the lawyer’s argument – we have reached five audios of a conversation that the officer had in a chifa. I have never been unaware of that meeting because it was a meeting to which I was invited by this officer. (Do you recognize a meeting with captain Junior Izquierdo?) Yes, of course.”
