Oscar Lopez Menesesa former operator of Fujimontesinism, will be questioned as a witness next Thursday, May 12, in the trial against the former president Ollanta Humala (2011-2016) for money laundering, within the framework of the Odebrecht case.
This was reported by the Third Collegiate Criminal Court of the National Superior Court of Criminal Justice, which also summoned Ítalo Ponce Montero and David Quintana Ortiz for that date, all of them witnesses offered by the Prosecutor’s Office.
Today’s session began with the interrogation of the former director of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINI), retired Rear Admiral Julio Raygada García.
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After that, the list of questions was developed to the former director of the General Directorate of Investigation of the Ministry of the Interior (Digimin) Jorge Cárdenas Sáenz.
At the close of the session, Judge Nayko Coronado, head of the Third Collegiate Criminal Court, scheduled the next hearing for May 12 at 9:00 a.m.
The prosecution requested 20 years in prison for Ollanta Humala and 26 and a half years for Nadine Heredia for money launderingas a result of the alleged contributions of the Government of Venezuela and Odebrecht for the electoral campaigns of 2006 and 2011, respectively.
Who is Oscar López Meneses?
He was married to Elena Maribel Malca, daughter of the former Minister of Defense Victor Malca VillanuevaToday a fugitive from justice. It was Malca who brought him before Vladimir Montesinos and became part of the close circle of the former presidential adviser.
One of his main activities was to coordinate with the Fujimorista caucus in the Congress of the republic and capture turncoat legislators.
After Montesinos escaped to Panama, several properties of Lopez Meneses were intervened by order of the former president Alberto Fujimori. He also seized an encrypted phone through which he communicated with Montesinos.
Also the secretary of Montesinos, Matilde Pinchi PinchiHe claimed to have given him $150,000. He was prosecuted for the crimes of embezzlement, wiretapping and illegal possession of weapons and in 2012 he was sentenced to four years in prison.
In 2007, Lopez Meneses He was also caught participating in a meeting at the Fiesta restaurant, with the former APRA minister Agustin Mantilla and several senior military commanders, in addition to the magistrate of the Constitutional Court Javier Rios Castillo.
In November 2013 Lopez Meneses He managed to get the Peruvian justice to order that his police, criminal and judicial records be annulled. In addition, he was spared the payment of 719,060 soles in civil damages in favor of the Peruvian State.
That same year it was revealed that this ex-operator of Fujimontesinism enjoyed exclusive police custody at his home in Surco. This fact caused the relief of six senior officers of the National Police (PNP).
For this fact, in July 2021 the Third Unipersonal Criminal Court of the Superior Court of Lima sentenced him to four years suspended prison.
