He Judicial Branch issued 5 months of preventive detention against the former president Martín Vizcarra Within the framework of investigations for cases Lomas de Ilo and Moquegua Hospital for the alleged crime of bribery (bribes). However, before the judge’s decision Jorge Chávez Tamarizthe ex -president took the floor to explain the detail of his trips and expressed his confidence in the justice system.
The former head of State detailed his list of travel to the interior of the country with the Urbaniza 3D company and his political party Peru firstin order to demonstrate labor and family roots to stop the preventive detention against him. However, hours later, Vizcarra He was transferred to the jailette of Judicial Branch To fulfill the mandate.
“So we have fully fulfilled everything that corresponds, Mr. Judge. It is fine. And here we are waiting again for justice in which, despite the Crucis route that I am going through in all those years, I continue to trust the Judiciary. Thank you very much,” he said.
It is important to note that, according to the fiscal thesis, Vizcarra allegedly received S/2.3 million by the company ICCSA and Work in exchange for intervening in the awards of the aforementioned projects.
On the other hand, the former president referred to the statements of the effective collaborator Erd Tejeda, who seriously compromise him in the investigations. In that sense, the ex -president attacked Tejeda and described as a “perverse incentive” his sayings.
“Therefore, what perverse incentive is the effective collaboration, where a criminal who accepts it, is accepted as such, changes a lifetime in jail with such a false dellation against me I am.
“I have been able to attention to this effective collaboration sentence. I am not going to say for the time that all tells me, I will only put as a reference an effective collaboration sentence of those who start all this process, the effective collaborator Elard Paul Tejeda of the Company Workinga,” he said.
Martín Vizcarra will be transferred to the Barbadillo prison after ordering 5 months in preventive detention
After the decision of Judge Chávez Tamariz, the former president will be admitted to the Barbadillo penalty To comply with the court order until January 2026. Until the prison is being held, the former head of State will remain in the jail of the Judiciary until August 14. However, before that, it will undergo medical examinations with the legist doctor, as established by law.
Initially, the Prosecutor’s Office requested 6 months of preventive detention for the former head of state; However, the judge decided to impose 5 months, since at that time the oral trial against Vizcarra for the Lomas de Ilo case will have concluded.
With this resolution of the Judiciary, Vizcarra It becomes the fifth former president to be imprisoned in the Barbadillo prison. The ex -president joins the list that includes the ex -dictator Alberto Fujimori, Alejandro Toledo, Ollanta Humala and Pedro Castillowho is also fulfilling a preventive detention order for its coup attempt in December 2022.
