The Second Criminal Appeals Chamber of the Superior Court of National Specialized Criminal Justice will evaluate and resolve the appeal that the prosecutor Jose Domingo Perez presented against the annulment of the trial against the leader of Popular Force, Keiko Fujimori for him Cocktails case.
This court is presided over by the superior judge Octavio César Sahuanay Calsín and composed of the titular senior judges Javier Santiago Sologuren Anchante and Edgar Francisco Medina Salas.
The Second National Criminal Chamber has jurisdiction to review all the decisions of the Third National Collegiate Criminal Court regarding the cocktails case, since this process began more than eight years ago.
They have decisions for and against Fujimori
Octavio César Sahuanay He served until December 31, 2024 as president of the Superior Court of National Specialized Criminal Justicea position he held since 2020. He has previously been a member of this court and in 2019 he ruled in favor of the first preventive detention by Keiko Fujimori.
Javier Sologurenchief judge of Loreto, during 2024 he served between the First and the Third National Criminal Court of Appeals. Sologuren replaced the senior judge Maria Felices Mendoza in the Fifth Criminal Appeals Chamber when, in May 2024, annulled the preliminary detention of Nicanor Boluarte and Mateo Castañedain the case “The Waykis in the Shadow“.
Against preventive detention
Edgar Medina Salas He is the most senior member of the Second Appeals Chamber, which is why he has previously intervened in other judicial incidents of this process.
Medina Salas voted against admitting an appeal against the second preventive detention of the leader of Fuerza Popular, the 2020. Although he ruled to annul Fujimori’s arrest and ordered his immediate release.
In August 2024, he ruled against imposing a third preventive detention on Keiko Fujimori, for alleged violations of the rules of conduct, and ratified the restricted appearance that the judge had imposed on him. Victor Zúñiga Urday at the conclusion of the control of the tax accusation.
The appeal process
In the next few hours, the Second National Criminal Court of Appeals must take cognizance of the appeal of prosecutor José Domingo Pérez against the majority resolution that annulled the trial of Keiko Fujimori and 32 leaders, sympathizers and contributors of Popular Force. Next, a hearing will be called to listen to the parties and make the appropriate decision.
Said appeal was granted with suspensive effect, which means that if the Second Criminal Appeals Chamber rules in favor of the prosecutor, the trial will resume as of the audience No. 35 with the summoning of witnesses. If they confirm the decision to annul the trial, it will have to start again and the prosecution will adapt its accusation to what was resolved by the trial. Constitutional Court.
