Still in trouble. The Judiciary issued four years and six months of suspended prison against Cinthia Pajuelo Chávez for the crime of influence peddling that he committed when she was councilor of the Municipality of Rímac, between 2018 and 2022reported the sixth office of the Second Prosecutor’s Office Specialized in Corruption Crimes of Officials of Lima Centro.
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Cinthia Pajuelo’s name has been present in the media since December of last year because she was accused by the president of Acción Popular, Julio Chávez, of being responsible for the irregularities that led to the annulment of the internal elections and, consequently, the separation of the party from the electoral process on April 12.
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Well, Pajuelo will now have to accept a sentence in the first instance for acts of corruption committed when she was councilor of Rímac. According to the fiscal thesis, The former councilor asked a citizen for 15,000 soles in exchange for interceding with the mayor and the deputy manager of Licenses, Authorizations and Marketing to favor it with the continuity of a gastronomic and craft fair located in front of the Plaza de Acho.
The sentence also affects Víctor Pinedo, the former councilor’s partner, who was sentenced to the same penalty as a primary accomplice, since he was in charge of repeating the request for money and receiving part of the illicit payments.
The investigation, led by provincial deputy prosecutor July Mabel Rosales Flores, revealed that the requested money was delivered in cash and in several payments to the former councilor and her partner.
As part of the conviction, Pajuelo and Pinedo were disqualified from holding public office for a period of five years, and must pay the State the sum of 20,000 soles as civil reparations; as well as fine days proportional to the crime committed.
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But it is not the only investigation that Cinthia Pajuelo faces. Due to the alleged fraud in the internal elections of Acción Popular, the Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation against the former president of the electoral committee of said party for the alleged commission of the crimes of document falsification and ideological falsehood. The procedures are carried out by Eighth Corporate Prosecutor’s Office Penal of Cercado de Lima-Breña-Rímac-Jesús María, which will have an initial period of 50 days.
In addition to this process, Pajuelo will have to undertake an ex officio expulsion process from the Popular Action party after two members of the National Electoral Committee sent a formal complaint to the national secretary of Discipline. A criminal complaint would be added to this.
