“Let us welcome engineer Absalón Vásquez (Villanueva), who is going (as a candidate) to the Senate of the Republic of Peru with all his wisdom and wisdom,” he expressed. Rafael Lopez Aliaga when introducing the veteran former minister and former Fujimori congressman, at a rally in Jesús María, on December 2, 2025. In addition to filling him with praise, the presidential candidate of Renovación Popular pointed out that it was an example to follow. But, Absalón Vásquez’s political and judicial past does not fit the portrait he drew Lopez Aliaga.
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In the CV that he submitted to the National Election Jury (JNE), in the section referring to “List of Sentences”, he indicated: “Crime: Accomplice of embezzlement”, “Failure or Penalty: Primary accomplice”. In the “Supplementary Information” section, he added: “It should be noted that the ruling itself states that it is proven that Absalón Vásquez did not benefit directly or indirectly from State funds.”
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The Republic obtained a copy of the resolution of the Third Special Criminal Chamber dated June 27, 2008, which states that Absalón Vásquez Villanueva was sentenced to 4 years of suspended prison for the crime of embezzlement to the detriment of the State. For this reason, he was ordered to pay civil compensation in the amount of S/1,070,000.
As will be seen later, experts in electoral legislation consulted by this newspaper agreed that the condemnation received by the candidate of “wisdom” and “wisdom” prevents him from running for the Senate.
Judgment. Facsimile of the conviction that Absalón Vásquez received for embezzlement to the detriment of the State. Photo: The Republic
resume. Absalón Vásquez acknowledged the sentence for corruption, but says he did not receive any money. That was not the substance of his case. Photo: JNE
The unpaid debt
Furthermore, it was a very serious case of corruption of officials, in which public funds were illicitly disposed of. That Absalón Vásquez Villanueva “did not benefit directly or indirectly from State funds,” as he wrote in his resume, does not refer to the actions he carried out and that deserved the sentence.
The judicial document says: “Condemning Absalón Vásquez Villanueva as a primary accomplice of the crime against the Public Administration – Embezzlement, to the detriment of the State, and imposing four years of imprisonment, the execution of which is suspended for a period of three years, under compliance with the current rules of conduct:
a) Do not leave your place of residence without prior authorization from the judge in the case.
b) Appear personally and obligatorily to the Court on the last day of each month to report and justify your activities.
c) Repair the damage caused by the crime, under warning of applying article 59 of the Penal Code. They imposed the penalty of disqualification for a period of three years, in accordance with the second paragraph of article 36 of the penal code and set it at: One million seventy thousand new soles (S/1,070,000) for civil reparation.
However, according to the Registry of Civil Reparations Debtors (REDERESI) of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, Absalón Vásquez appears with a sentence for the crime of embezzlement issued by the Fourth Criminal Court for Trials with Free Prisoners. The database records as civil reparation the sum of S/ 1,070,000.00. After 17 years of the sentence, of the total reparation, Absalón Vásquez has paid S/32,850, leaving S/1,037,150 pending. That is, he paid only 3.07%.
That is, López Aliaga’s favorite candidate is reluctant to pay what the sentence orders. And, flouting the judicial mandate, he runs for the Senate.
Absalón Vásquez did not respond to La República’s interview requests to offer his version of the events.
Known as the “Borobio Case”, Absalón Vásquez Villanueva was criminally sanctioned for participating in one of the most scandalous cases of corruption of the regime of Alberto Fujimori and his advisor Vladimiro Montesinos. And it appears in a famous “vladivideo”.
In the living room of the sin. Absalón Vásquez Villanueva and Vladimiro Montesinos at the facilities of the National Intelligence Service, in 1998. Photo: diffusion
The SIN candidate
As will be remembered, the de facto head of the National Intelligence Service (SIN), Vladimiro Montesinos, surreptitiously filmed his acts of corruption to blackmail his accomplices. The case in which he was implicated and for which he received a sentence Absalon Vasquezis one of them.
In 1998, Fujimori and Montesinos set up a plan to win the Lima municipal elections.very important for the objective of the presidential re-election of the year 2000. According to the file of the judicial process, which includes the statements of several witnesses and documentary evidence, the former Minister of Economy and Finance, Juan Carlos Hurtado Miller, was selected to compete for the municipal seat.
The fujicandidate. Montesinos giving money to the Fujimori candidate for mayor of Lima, Juan Carlos Hurtado Miller, at the SIN offices. Photo: diffusion
“Vladivideo” star
The campaign was entrusted to Fujimori’s communications advisor, the Argentine Daniel Borobio Guede, in coordination with Montesinos.
In a “vladivideo” recorded at the SIN facilities, on August 11, 1998, Vladimiro Montesinos appears giving US$249,000 in cash to the Fujimori candidate Juan Carlos Hurtado Miller, in the presence of Daniel Borobio and Absalón Vásquez.
The money came from funds diverted from the budgets of the Army, Navy and Air Force, which formed a “petty cash” to pay for the clandestine activities of the SIN for the benefit of the Fujimori regime. That money was used to cover Juan Carlos Hurtado Miller’s campaign expenses. AND Absalón Vásquez was part of the plot, according to the case file.
For the Third Special Criminal Chamber, made up of judges Denyse Baca Cabrera, José Neyra Flores and Susana Castañeda Otsu, by mandate of Alberto Fujimori, Vladimiro Montesinos in his capacity as advisor to the Senior Management of the National Intelligence Service, had full domain and control of State funds, having carried out actions aimed at favoring the campaign of the candidate Juan Carlos Hurtado Miller. Absalón Vásquez was part of the plan, for which he was convicted as a primary accomplice for embezzlement to the detriment of the State. It was not because he kept any money but because he was part of the said episode of corruption.
There is another “vladivideo” in which Absalón Vásquez Villanueva appears in the so-called “Salita del SIN”, along with Montesinos and other Fujimori characters, plotting illicit activities. It was filmed on January 15, 1998, with former congresswoman Luz Salgado and former Chalaco mayor Alex Kouri (brother of Alberto Kouri, who appeared in the first “vladivideo” receiving a bribe from Montesinos).
According to the current regulations of the Organic Law of Elections, people convicted of crimes of embezzlement, collusion, corruption of officials, illicit drug trafficking and rape, They cannot run for elected office.. This would be the case of Absalón Vásquez Villanueva.
The candidate of “wisdom” and “wisdom,” as López Aliaga says, is at fault with justice. And given this obvious fact, the National Elections Jury must intervene.
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Accomplice. On the left, the publicist Daniel Borobio Guede, and at the other end, Vladimiro Montesinos in the SIN room in 1998. Photo: diffusion
“A person convicted of corruption cannot apply”
- The specialist in electoral and constitutional law, lawyer Mario Advíncula Moreno, pointed out that due to the seriousness of the crime committed by Absalón Vásquez Villanueva, his candidacy is unviable.
- “A citizen who has a conviction for corruption of officials and a million-dollar debt for civil reparation cannot run for elected office,” Advíncula highlighted.
- He warned that those candidates who have the status of disqualified or with sentences will be filtered in the database of the National Elections Jury (JNE) and will not be replaced.
- “It is definitely prohibited not only for these 2026 general elections, but also for the regional elections. In that sense the rule is very strict,” he said.
- He explained that, due to the type of crime, those citizens convicted of corruption and have achieved their rehabilitation and paid civil reparation, cannot apply for office, even if the crime or debt has expired.
