This Monday the Judiciary has ordered the extension for 24 months of the deadline for the preparatory investigation being carried out against the former mayor of Lima, Rafael López Aliaga and others involved in the Panama Papers case.
It should be remembered that the request made by the First Corporate Supraprovincial Prosecutor’s Office Specialized in Money Laundering Crimes (Fourth Office) requested 36 months, but Judge Jorge Chávez Tamariz adopted the measure only for 24 months.
According to RPP, this time was declared “reasonable” to exhaust the preparatory investigation and issue the statement on the merits of the controversy and for the proceedings that are pending to be carried out, such as completing an accounting and financial expertise from 2010 to 2018 and extended from 2018 to 2021, taking the testimonial statements of two foreigners and eight nationals, as well as requesting legal assistance from the United States and Panama, and determining whether three companies are understood as “legal entities” within this case.
“There must necessarily be important actions such as financial accounting expertise, which will reach the legal entities, as the prosecutor has said, are in the process of being incorporated into the process, national and foreign testimonial statements and international judicial assistance because the aforementioned legal entities are domiciled outside of Peru, it is appropriate to impose only a 24-month deadline as an extension of the preparatory investigation,” maintains Chávez Tamariz in his resolution.
The Prosecutor’s Office investigates the management of funds that would amount to one million soles from the Municipal Popular Credit Fund between 2012 and 2014, among other cases.
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