Judge Wilson Verástegui will evaluate today in a hearing whether he executes the ruling of the Constitutional Court (TC) that annulled the investigation for illicit campaign contributions against the presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori.
The procedure will be in person and will begin at 9:00 am at the headquarters of the National Court of Specialized Criminal Justice.
Fujimori is not the only one who asked to apply that ruling in her favor. His co-defendants such as Adriana Tarazona, former treasurer of Fuerza Popular, and José Chlimper, former secretary general of the same political organization, also requested it.
Although the TC has already made a decision, only a criminal judge can decide whether or not to abide by the meaning of that resolution since it was a ruling based on a habeas corpus presented by the accused.
The highest interpreter of the Magna Carta established that payments made to proselytizing activities before November 2016, when money laundering was incorporated into the property receipt modality through Legislative Decree 1249, are not considered crimes.
Fujimori Higuchi is accused of having received illegal money to finance his 2011 and 2016 campaigns, which ran until June of this last year.
And not only that. He also concluded that the Public Ministry did not corroborate whether the money used by the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht to finance the Fujimori party came from an illegal source.
Prosecutor José Domingo Pérez, who carried out the investigation for ten years, will require that the accusation be maintained to bring the daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori to trial.
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