After the fiscal and police investigation and the declaration of effective collaborators, it was determined that the alleged members of the criminal organization “The Illustrious of Piura”had links with a notary, a registrar and two PNP officers, officials with whom they illegally agreed for their notarial and registration procedures and to seize the land owned by the State that was free, as well as prevent criminal prosecution against them.
According to file No. 00489-2026-1-2001-JR-PE-06, to which Correo had access, the alleged criminal organization “Los Ilustres de Piura” has as its alleged leader the lawyer José Santos Lázaro Pilco, and they were dedicated to fraudulent sanitation and registering properties through the falsification of sales contracts, public deeds and property titles, the same ones that they used and presented before judicial authorities (to file lawsuits), notarial and registry offices as if they were authentic
The prosecutor’s office specifies that in these procedures one of the members of the organization or legal entities linked to them appears pretending to be a buyer of the properties, this so that they can be registered in Sunarp in the name of said member, and “then the profits are distributed as a consequence of the criminal activity that they plan to consummate.”
Said investigation against this alleged organization has been going on since March 2023, in which it was learned that its members managed to register with false documents in 2016 the ownership of a land of 439 hectares in the “Loma del Mar y Luna” sector – district of Miguel Checa (Sullana) and in 2019 they illegally registered two lands of 2,158 and 1,420 hectares each and a third land of 1,226 hectares + 6712 m2 in the “Pampas de Congorá” sector (Paita).
“In the last stage of the criminal planning carried out by the members of the criminal organization “Los Ilustres de Piura”, it began after they achieved fraudulent registrations before Public Registries of the public deeds obtained through notarial and judicial means of the properties described above, registered in the name of one of the members of the criminal organization. […]. This last stage is still in force, that is, in full development by the criminal organization,” the tax file reads.
Precisely, within the framework of this investigation, yesterday the Second Office of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office Against Organized Crime of Piura, with the support of the Money Laundering Department of the PNP, carried out the raid with unlocking, personal and home search, seizure of eight properties, including the PNP police station in Pariñas, and one in Lima.
The measure is carried out within the investigation that continues against six people for the alleged commission of various crimes.
