A team from the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office of Lima, chaired by the prosecutor Marco Huamán, arrived at the Government Palace on the morning of this Friday, November 19 to carry out a series of proceedings against the former secretary general of the Presidential Office, Bruno Pacheco. The Public Ministry investigates it, in a preliminary way, for allegedly exerting pressure against the head of the Sunat.
“Preliminary proceedings were initiated against Arnulfo Bruno Pacheco Castillo and those who are responsible for the alleged crime against the public administration in the form of influence peddling to the detriment of the State, ”reported the Public ministry on his official Twitter account.
“The investigation of the Office of the Special Prosecutor for Crimes of Corruption of Officials, under the coordination of the superior prosecutor Omar Tello Rosales, is motivated by the public information on alleged irregular actions by Pacheco before the Sunat in favor of private companies”They added.
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Likewise, the autonomous body specified that “the Fourth Office of the Second Provincial Corporate Prosecutor’s Office Specialized in Crimes of Corruption of Officials, within the framework of its investigations, will verify whether there are elements of conviction that determine whether there is probable cause for criminal charges.”
Chats that prompted the preliminary proceedings
It was the attorney Public Specialized in corruption crimes, Javier Pacheco, who last Thursday 18 requested that an investigation be initiated against the now former secretary general of the Palace, for alleged pressure against the head of the National Superintendency of Customs and Tax Administration (Sunat), Luis Enrique Vera.
The Lima Gris media had broadcast some chats that revealed that Bruno Pacheco asked Vera not only to favor the Deltron company in a debt that it owes Sunat, but he practically ordered it by saying: “You tell me the solution.”
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In addition, in another message sent on September 26, Pacheco addresses the superintendent to recommend the lawyer Marco Antonio Urbina Chumpitassi in the Public Auctioneers contest for the Sunat de Trujillo Intendancy, in La Libertad. He assures him that said lawyer has the conditions and qualifications for the position, and complains that “the same person wins there.”.
