The Judiciary authorized the start of the oral trial against the congressmen Guido Bellido and Guillermo Bermejo for the alleged crime of obstruction of justice, for which the Prosecutor’s Office has requested 7 years and 6 months in prison against him.
Through a resolution, provisional supreme judge Juan Carlos Checkley ordered the prosecution of both parliamentarians who entered Congress in 2021 with the Peru Libre shirt.
Under this protection, everything that has been done has been sent to the Special Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court, which must schedule a date and time for the start of the oral trial.
According to the complaint, made by the Public Ministry, Bellido and Bermejo had prevented the former military officer Bobby Eddy Villarroel Medina, known as Sasha, from testifying before the agents of the Directorate with Terrorism (Dircote) of the National Police in the framework of an investigation for an alleged connection of the legislators with remnants of the terrorist organization Sendero Luminoso located in the area of the Valley of the Apurímac, Ene and Mantaro rivers. (VRAEM).
In this case, the Prosecutor’s Office has requested 7 years and 6 months in prison against the parliamentarians, as well as the payment of a 182-day fine equivalent to 236,000 soles each.
The Attorney General’s Office, for its part, has requested from the Judiciary that both parliamentarians jointly pay 247,500 soles as civil reparations.
Guillermo Bermejo, it should be noted, was sentenced to 15 years in prison last October for the crime of terrorist affiliation and is currently being held in the Ancón prison, while Guido Bellido is running for a seat in the Senate for the political party Podemos Perú led by José Luna Gálvez in the next general elections in April 2026.
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