The Permanent Court Specialized in Asset Forfeiture ordered the lifting of the bank secrecy of the investigated congressman José Luna Gálveztoday a presidential candidate with Podemos, and his company Universidad Telesup.
The provision was issued at the request of the Sixth Provincial Prosecutor’s Office for Asset Forfeiture.
According to the newspaper El Comercio, the Superintendency of Banking, Insurance and Pension Fund Administrator (SBS) must require all banking entities to carry out active or passive activities, checks drawn, and acquisition of shares deployed by the legislator and his company.
The Public Ministry warned of various contributions made by Luna Gálvez to the 2014 electoral campaign of the late former mayor of Lima, Luis Castañeda Lossio.
The tax thesis indicates that the source of this money came from the Brazilian companies Odebrecht and OAS, and to camouflage it, operations carried out by Telesup would have been used.
This firm, which did not obtain Sunedu’s license to operate as a higher education institution, has registered suspicious transactions for S/256,600 between 2011 and 2016 in favor of Castañeda.
Domain Forfeiture is a judicial procedure different from criminal because it focuses on recovering assets and properties that were acquired with illicit money.
On the criminal side, precisely, the Prosecutor’s Office has required 22 years in prison against the owner of the Podemos party for the illegal registration of his political organization in 2018.
According to the investigation, Luna bribed members of the defunct National Council of the Judiciary (CNM) to elect Adolfo Castillo as head of the ONPE and he, in turn, allowed the party to be registered and participate in elections.
