Former anti-corruption prosecutor Aladino Lazo, who investigated the management of the fugitive Vladimir Cerrónin the Regional Government of Junín, was hired as an advisor to the Congressional Justice Commission, which is in the hands of Perú Libre.
The information was initially revealed by Ideeleradio. According to the Parliament’s transparency portal, former prosecutor Aladino Lazo began working at the Congressional Justice Commission in September of this year with a salary of S/ 10,763.85.
The president of the Congressional Justice Commission is the congressman from Peru Libre, Isaac Mita. The Republic He called him by phone to ask for explanations and the parliamentarian defended the hiring.
“He is a trustworthy person. Because of his specialization (I hired him),” he said. When he was reminded that a year ago this former prosecutor investigated the Peru Libre party, Mita responded: “That is a rehashed question, they continue with that nonsense,” he protested.
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This newspaper asked him what criteria he took into account when hiring him and how long he had known him. The congressman responded that we ask for those details via the transparency law. “For security reasons, I am not going to give more information,” he said and the phone call ended.
The version of his advisor in the Justice Commission was also requested, but at the closing of this note there was no response to our repeated telephone calls.
The former prosecutor who investigated the Peru Libre government in Junín
According to Infoandes, former prosecutor Lazo investigated the leader of Perú Libre, Vladimir Cerrón, and other former officials of the Junín Regional Government in the case on the work “Closed canalization of the Irrigation Canal of the Left Bank of the Mantaro River (CIMIRM)”.
On February 14 of last year, Correo newspaper reported that Judge Walter Camarena Madrid, of the Eighth Preparatory Investigation Court Specialized in Corruption Crimes of Officials of Junín, requested that the then anti-corruption prosecutor Aladino Lazo withdraw from the CIMIRM case.
The reason, that report added, was that Lazo Pacheco had requested the dismissal of the process against the representative of the Center Consortium, Enrique Verapinto, even though it did not correspond. The case was then handed over to prosecutor Bonnys Bautista.
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On September 21 of last year, Lazo Pacheco resigned from the position of prosecutor of the Junín Prosecutor’s Office Specialized in Corruption Crimes of Officials for personal reasons. His decision was accepted by the then head of the Public Ministry, Patricia Benavides.
A year later he came to Congress.
The advisors play a decisive role in the commissions because they collaborate with the preparation of the opinions that will be discussed so that they can be presented to the Plenary Session.
The Peru Libre bench has shown considerable interest in the reform of the judicial system. The Congressional Justice Commission has a key role in that aspiration.
Peru Libre’s interest in the reform of the judicial system
In recent weeks this bench has promoted various legal initiatives on the justice system, such as the one presented by Congressman José Balcázar so that prosecutors and supreme judges are elected by the Senate in the bicameral Congress and the one promoted by legislator Flavio Cruz so that diffuse control and conventionality against unconstitutional laws first go through a review by the Constitutional Court.
Although these initiatives will be seen first in the Constitution Commission, they will also need to be deliberated in the Justice Commission, which for two years has been led by congressmen from Peru Libre.
Mita arrived in Congress in March of last year to replace the suspended former legislator Betssy Chávez. Before he assumed the presidency of the Justice Commission, the person in charge of that commission was his Perulibrist colleague Janet Rivas. During that period, a report was discussed to remove the seven judges from the National Board of Justice (JNJ) for alleged serious misconduct.
