He former President Ollanta Humala He spoke from the Barbadillo prison and claimed to be “kidnapped.” Through opinion column published in this mediumThe ex -president indicated that his imprisonment is “illegal and arbitrary.”
The fact referred to Humala, was developed on April 15 when the Third National Collegiate Criminal Courtsentenced to 15 years in effective prison the former president and his wife Nadine HerediaWhen finding them responsible, as co -authors, the crime of aggravated money laundering, in the case of money contributions to the electoral campaigns of 2006 and 2011. In advance of the ruling, the Court ordered the immediate execution of the penalty, that is, the internment of the sentenced (Ollanta Humala, Nadine Heredia and Ilan Heredia).
Therefore, Humala was held in the Barbadillo penalty. The Heredia brothers were not captured Nadine got political asylum in Brazilwhile, to date, Ilan’s whereabouts are unknown.
The ex -president described his imprisonment as “illegal”. “The same judges convened a new hearing on April 29, in which, they announced, the sentence would be read. However, I was already deprived of liberty without any legal basis. During this hearing the partial reading of a sentence was held that was not yet written in its entirety, breaking again the demands of the Criminal Procedure and the Constitution. Illegal: 8:00 pm of May 2, day that had been declared not working.
“I am kidnapped in the Barbadillo penalty For more than three months. I was imprisoned arbitrarily by illegal disposition of Judges Nayko Coronado Salazar, Juana Caballero García and Max Venoa Valdiglesias, who ordered my detention without allowing me to know the reasons for a conviction that did not exist. (…) My illegal imprisonment constitutes a flagrant violation of due process and configures a kidnapping by the State, “he added.
Ollanta Humala and Nadine Heredia: What did the court say about his case?
During the advancement of the ruling, Coronado determined that the statements of the witnesses, who indicated that Nadine Heredia went to the Venezuelan embassy to receive amounts of money in dollars inside suitcases and/or backpacks for the 2006 electoral campaign. “This money, from our evidence, there is an illegal origin,” he emphasized.
Along the same lines, he said that, during the oral trial that extended for more than three years, 57 witnesses were presented who denied having contributed to the presidential campaigns of 2006 and 2011. Likewise, he added that Nadine Heredia signed false contracts with the company Total Support; This statement was based on the registration of bank deposits made to the Heredia account during the 2006 presidential campaign.
Similarly, the Court determined that the Nationalist Party received US $ 3 million for the 2011 presidential campaign. In addition, the magistrates indicated that, although in Brazil the processes against several investigated were annulled, this does not eliminate the illegality of the money received by the political organization.
