The Judiciary has scheduled for the Thursday, November 7 at 11:30 am a key hearing in which the possible return of the assets seized from the former president will be decided Martin Vizcarrawho is investigated for alleged crimes of criminal organization and others to the detriment of the State.
The session will be in charge of the Supreme Preparatory Investigation Court, which will evaluate the request presented by the former president’s defense.
The assets were seized within the framework of the ongoing investigation, which seeks to clarify the alleged irregularities that link Vizcarra with acts of corruption committed during his public administration.
#IMPORTANT The Judiciary schedules for Thursday, November 7, at 11:30 a.m., the hearing in which the return of seized assets requested by #MartínVizcarra in the investigation he faces for the alleged crime of criminal organization and another, in… pic.twitter.com/jfSKcFlB7p
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Vizcarra seeks to delay the start of the oral trial scheduled for Monday the 28th
On October 23, Martín Vizcarra had requested that the nullity of the resolution issued by the Fourth National Collegiate Criminal Court be declared, which provides for the installation of the oral trial against him for the crime of passive bribery (payment of bribes) in the Lomas de Ilo and Hospital de Moquegua case, scheduled for this Monday the 28th.
The vacant former president argued, in the letter sent by his lawyer to the head of that criminal court, that the scheduling of this procedure must be done once the accusation control process for the crime of collusion has been completed, so the resolution for the start of oral trial for own passive bribery, issued on July 4, violates the principle of non bis in idem, by which a person cannot be tried twice for the same acts that are considered criminal.
Protected by this principle, the former president’s legal defense argued that, in the same criminal process, the same fact regarding the same person cannot be a matter of prosecution and control of the accusation at the same time. A law.
Vizcarra is accused of having received illicit payments, in the form of bribes, when he was regional governor of Moquegua. The Prosecutor’s Office has requested 15 years in prison against him.
In March 2021, the former president was accused by his former Minister of Agriculture José Manuel Hernández, an effective collaborator in the Construction Club case, of having used him to be the intermediary for the bribes of 1.3 million soles that he received from the company. ICCGSA to benefit from the preparation of the technical file and the expansion works of the Moquegua Hospital. Hernández gave this statement before the prosecutor responsible for this case, Germán Juárez.
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