The Cerrón brothers refuse to testify before the Money Laundering Prosecutor’s Office

The announced raid on the investigations of the Prosecutor’s Office was a fairy tale. So much Vladimir Cerron, the owner of Peru Libre, like his congressman brother Waldemar Cerrón, took advantage of their right to silence when they attended the office of prosecutor Richard Rojas Gómez, and did not want to clarify the alleged irregular contributions that were used in Pedro Castillo’s presidential campaign. Both are investigated for money laundering.

The parliamentarian attended on January 26 along with his lawyer Liliana Otero Salinas, a former Ancash judge who was removed from office in 2015, by the then National Council of the Magistracy (CNM), after granting fishing permits when that function is the responsibility of the Ministry of Production.

Precisely, it was Waldemar Cerrón who indicated, in September of last year, that his party would collaborate with the fiscal proceedings.

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“We are willing and we acquiesce to any type of legal investigation,” he declared days after prosecutor Rojas intervened the party premises and the house of his brother Vladimir, which happened on August 28.

Peru21 contacted Otero to find out why his sponsor decided not to speak. However, he recused himself from comment. “I cannot give any statement until I talk to my client,” he alleged.

The lawyer has had more than one rapprochement with the government of Pedro Castillo.

Last year he visited the office of the then Minister of Production, José Incio Sánchez, three times between October and November. These appointments do not seem casual considering that Áncash, the lawyer’s native region, is an important focus for fishing investment.

In 2015, in addition, Liliana Otero was compromised in the La Switchboard case by a protected witness, according to the Ancashino media.

According to the statement, Otero went to the operations center of the condemned ex-governor César Álvarez.

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Vladimir Cerrón opted for the same legal strategy as his brother. On Wednesday, February 16, the sentenced ex-governor of Junín attended the Public Ministry together with his lawyer Claudette Chaptman and refrained from answering the questions prepared by the prosecutor.

A week earlier, on February 7, the former regional authority was at the Government Palace hours before the formation of the fourth ministerial cabinet, which today is headed by lawyer Aníbal Torres.

This newspaper sought to contact Chaptman, but did not return our phone calls.

One of the investigation hypotheses is that Peru Libre financed its political campaign with money arising from the illicit activities of Los Dinámicos del Centro, a criminal organization that Cerrón would have headed from the Junín region.

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