He Judicial Branch issued five months of preventive detention against the former president Martín Vizcarrawho is investigated for allegedly receiving bribes from more than S/2 million when he was Regional Governor of Moquegua.
The Prosecutor’s Officerepresented by prosecutor Germán Juárez, argues that the ex -president favored construction companies in the award of the works Lomas de Ilo and the Moquegua Hospitalin exchange for illicit payments. According to the judge, there are elements that prove risk of escape and hinder process, which justifies the application of the most severe precautionary measure.
With this resolution, Vizcarra It will be held while investigations continue for alleged acts of corruption. The defense of the former head of state has announced that the measure will appeal, claiming that there are not enough evidence to send it to prison.
According to the prosecutor of the special team Lava Jato, Germán Juárez Atoche, the former president would have received S/1,000,000 in coimas for the work Lomas de Ilo. During the Preventive Prison Hearing, Juarez submitted statements of people involved in the case and pointed out that the payments were made in two parts: S/400 thousand and S/600 thousand. In addition, the Prosecutor’s Office attributed maneuvers to cover up proselytizing activities through travel reports that were allegedly manipulated.
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Martín Vizcarra was in danger of escape, according to Judge Jorge Chávez
During the reading of the Resolution of Preventive Prison against Martín Vizcarra, Judge Jorge Chávez said that the two contracts presented by the former president’s defense, among which is the charges made to the Vizcarra party itself, ‘Peru First’, did not accredit labor roots.
Chávez added that solid family ties were also not evidenced that guarantee permanence in the country of the political leader. “There is procedural danger, there is a danger of escape, based on the lack of labor and family roots, a questionable behavior and a possible penalty to impose,” he said.
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