A key moment in the investigations of prosecutor Leydi Cherrepano against the judge Roxana Becerra Urbina and the businessman Aniceto Argüelles Loayzawas the judicial authorization he obtained to wiretap both characters. Cherrepano needed to prove that Argüelles organized a plan for Becerra, in exchange for bribe payments, to issue a ruling in favor of the businessman’s interests. With the support of the High Complexity Investigation Division (DIVIAC), the prosecutor achieved the objective she set.
On April 28, 2019, a telephone conversation between Judge Roxana Becerra and Silvio Muñoz Villanueva was intercepted.a close friend of businessman Aniceto Argüelles. The audio confirms the link between Argüelles and Becerra through Silvio Muñoz.
Precisely, as part of the collusive agreement, Silvio Muñoz, on behalf of Aniceto Argüelles, acquired from Judge Becerra’s family three properties in Santa Rosa de Quives, in Canta, for an overvalued amount of US$224 thousand.
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Incriminating dialogues
On July 23, Becerra and Muñoz spoke openly about the sale of the land:
Muñoz: Hey, look. I’m going to pay the rest in two weeks. How do we do it? Because he is waiting for me no later than tomorrow morning, this (Ricardo) Quispe (Medrano) for a project, for a matter that interests me.
Becerra: Yes.
Muñoz: What do you think of the idea, my daughter? You have to sign, the presence of the notary is not necessary, right?
Becerra: No, because he already signed. Didn’t he tell you that he already has everything?
Muñoz: …I have received from Mr. Silvio Muñoz Villanueva the sum of 56 thousand and some dollars. That’s also like the second installment.
Becerra: Like a receipt, like the second installment.
Muñoz: So, your signature is worth gold to me…
Becerra: Yes.
As reported The Republicprosecutor Leydi Cherrepano has denounced, in addition to Judge Roxana Becerra and businessman Aniceto Argüelles, other figures who participated in the conspiracy: the aforementioned Silvio Muñoz Villanueva, Argüelles’ friend who negotiated with Judge Becerra the acquisition of three pieces of land.
In the same transcribed dialogue, Silvio Muñoz made reference to Ricardo Quispe Medrano, lawyer of the former president of the Quipán community, Abel Mosquera Ortíz. As reported, in 2016 Aniceto Argüelles and Abel Mosquera set up the fraudulent purchase and sale of 10 thousand hectares belonging to the community for S/600 thousand, when its real price reached S/5 million. When the farmers denounced Abel Mosquera and Industrias Argüelles Servicios Generales, owned by Aniceto Argüelles, the file fell to the office of Judge Roxana Becerra Urbina.
Aniceto Argüelles needed a favorable ruling, because if it was adverse, he would lose the land on which he installed a landfill to win more contracts with the capital’s districts.
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In the conversation intercepted on July 29, 2019, the Magistrate Roxana Becerra received the phone call from Argüelles’ intermediary, Silvio Muñoz. In the dialogue it is evident that Muñoz was going to leave an order for Becerra at his home in Magdalena. This is the conversation:
Becerra: Look.
Muñoz: Listen to me, beautiful daughter. Repeat the address to me… (…) Is it at block eight of Javier Prado Avenue? (Judge Becerra’s residence is located on block five of Antonio Miro Quesada Avenue). I’m going to go early.
Becerra: Yes.
Muñoz: Height of block eight of Javier Prado Avenue, right?
Becerra: Uh-huh, yes. (Javier Prado) West.
Muñoz: Magdalena or San Isidro?
Becerra: Magdalena.
Muñoz: Yes, Magdalena. Tower Building… (of Lucerne). (…)
Becerra: Oops!
Muñoz: Here I have it. Tower of Lucerne, right?
Becerra: Yes, Tower of Lucerne.
Muñoz: Here I have, Tower of Lucerne, right?
Becerra: Yes, Tower of Lucerne. (…)
Muñoz: Correct. I’ll leave it there to the gentleman… To any guachiman, right?
Becerra: Yes, just there in the administration. I’m going to warn you.
Muñoz: For your (department) 1603, I tell him. (To) the lady (Roxana Becerra). I’m going with my son.
Becerra: Uh-huh. Yeah, cool.
Muñoz: Yes, today I’ll bring it to you early, at any time, at the earliest.
Becerra: Already Silvio.
Muñoz: Daughter! (A) pleasure to be your friend, your family and your person!
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everything is finished
According to the accusation of prosecutor Leydi Cherrepano, this modality was the one that Silvio Muñoz used to allegedly pay the payment installments for the three plots of land that the family of Judge Roxana Becerra sold to businessman Aniceto Argüelles.
The acquisition of the properties that Argüelles made from Roxana Becerra’s family was a covert payment of bribes.
Another dialogue that proves that Argüelles paid for Becerra to issue a ruling in accordance with his interests is the following captured on April 26, 2019. It is a conversation between Argüelles and Silvio Muñoz, from the phone of Ricardo Quispe Medrano, lawyer of the former president of the Quipán community, Abel Mosquera Ortíz, involved in the fraudulent sale of the land.
Argüelles: Tell me, old man.
Muñoz: The doctor (Roxana Becerra) told me: ‘Engineer, don’t worry. I have it almost ready, but I am correcting a series of errors.’ For example, he tells me that those from the community have presented their writing one by one. ‘One by one I am canceling them, for that I have to have a basis. And I have that almost ready.’ Now, why is the doctor (Becerra) delaying? Let that explain to you (Ricardo) Quispe (Medrano).
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Silvio Muñoz returned his phone to Ricardo Quispe so that he could speak with Aniceto Argüelles.
Quispe: Engineer, good afternoon.
Argüelles: Doctor Quispe, good afternoon.
Quispe: Tell me, engineer.
Argüelles: Tell me, doctor.
Quispe: Engineer, the central point is that you are moving towards an acquittal, understand, you are no longer going to set a day or time for the reading of the sentence. But a civil resolution that will constitute an acquittal. So, that is what is being squared away, for example, the graphological expertise of some, all of that is already squared away, there is little left.
Argüelles: Total!
Quispe: So, we are already practically squaring it off, it will be released in 20 or 30 days.
Argüelles: Okay, okay doctor. In other words, they absolve everything.
Quispe: Absolutory. Dr. Roxana (Becerra) has come, your father has come (Antonio Becerra), your mother (René Urbina), with the mobility that (you) has given us.
Argüelles: Doctor, I thank you for all your support.
Quispe: No, no, there is no problem, right here the engineer (Silvio Muñoz) has spoken with Dr. Roxana (Becerra).
