Andres Hurtado Degrees, Chibolín is more famous for what he does off stage than for his performances in the spotlight.. This was confirmed by the senior prosecutor for money laundering Elizabeth Peralta Santurwhen she declared that she knew that her friend was a pimp. The version of the alleged clandestine activity of Chibolín It has been circulating intensively since the press gave it an unprecedented amount of attention, compared to the small news items published about its artistic performances.
On Tuesday, January 25, 1994, the anti-drug police arrested Andres Hurtado for his alleged links with drug trafficker Demetrio Chávez Peñaherrera, Vatican. Only a few days earlier, on January 12, 1994, Vatican had been arrested in Cali, Colombia, and extradited to Peru, where he was wanted because he headed the most important drug trafficking organization based in the Alto Huallaga. The spectacular arrest took place a few days after celebrating a New Year’s party attended by Chibolin accompanied by his wife, the artist Marilú Montiel, and the television presenter and model at the time Susan León.
Anyone who is involved in the fight against money laundering should know about this episode of Vatican-related arrests, which for a long time monopolized the coverage of all the media. But prosecutor Peralta said she did not know about it, even though she admitted that during her friendly relations with the Vatican, Chibolin Both were visiting their respective family homes. The decision of the anti-drug police to detain Chibolin, Marilú Montiel and Susan León, along with other celebrities, and implicating the former Miss World Lucía Boggiano and the stylist Segundo Gonzales, Chocco, among other figures, with the drug trafficker, had the effect of an unprecedented media bombshell. But of all those mentioned, they seemed to be the most involved ChibolinMarilú Montiel and Susan León, because they had a secret meeting with the Vatican in Cali. The excuse of those involved was that they knew Demetrio Chávez as the Colombian “Camilo Ferrer Picasso”, and, of course, they did not know that he was a drug lord.
MY FRIEND’S FRIEND
At that time, Chibolinwho was known for taking celebrities to private parties of powerful authorities, businessmen and military personnel, was said to have taken Susan León to Cali because the Vatican was in love with her. Andres Hurtado He has denied it, although he admitted that he was a friend of Demetrio Chávez. In statements to journalist Hugo Coya, for his book Polvo en el viento: Vaticano, esplendor y miserias de un narcotraficante (2011), Chibolín said: “I wanted to denounce the government (of Alberto Fujimori) for the outrage, but I was too scared. I was afraid that Vladimiro Montesinos would do something to me or my family. Montesinos hated me because I was a friend of the Vatican.” Montesinos was also a friend of the Vatican.
In a court hearing on August 16, 1996, Demetrio Chávez revealed that he paid US$50,000 a month to the then presidential advisor Montesinos in exchange for allowing him to export cocaine in small planes to Colombia. The relationship broke down when the de facto head of the National Intelligence Service (SIN) demanded an increase in the amount, which the Vatican refused to do. The alleged fear that Chibolin The ties he had with Montesinos seem to have dissipated very quickly, because he became linked to businessman Alberto Venero Garrido, the front man for Vladimiro Montesinos. Venero not only participated in the multi-million dollar embezzlement of the Military Police Pension Fund but also in the collection of bribes in the purchase of 36 MiG-29 and Sukhoi-25 warplanes from Belarus for more than US$400 million, between 1996 and 1997. Probably the largest corruption case of the Fujimori and Montesinos regime. By then, Chibolín was a close friend of both Alberto Venero and his girlfriend of several years, Susan León.
It is incomprehensible that a prosecutor specializing in money laundering, in order to justify her friendship with Chibolín, claimed that she was unaware of his past. Through Venero’s intermediation, Hurtado invited entertainers to the hotel formerly called Las Américas, in Miraflores, one of the properties of the Military Fund. Intimate parties organized by the members of the board of directors were held in that hotel, with the participation of generals from the Army, the Air Force and the National Police and admirals from the Navy, as well as real estate entrepreneurs who were part of the corruption plot. In that same hotel, the arms traffickers, partners of Montesinos, Moshe Rothschild, Enrique Benavides and Claus Corpancho, held their secret meetings. These individuals, known as ‘Los Gordos’, were the ones who sold the Belarusian combat aircraft in exchange for the payment of bribes to Montesinos and Venero. Chibolin’s friendWhen La República published investigations into the shady dealings of Montesinos and Venero in the Military Fund, Chibolín called the journalist in charge of the case and asked for a private meeting so that the revelations would stop. Of course, the proposal was rejected.
CUSTOMERS IN THE SHADOW
By then, it was clear that Andrés Hurtado was using the figure of an entertainer as a cover to do public relations for people of dubious reputation. His close friendship with Susan León, Alberto Venero’s partner for seven years, served him well. On January 13, 2021, Vaticano was released after 22 years in prison, which was the reason for him to declare to the press that he did not regret his friendship with drug trafficking and even announced that he had a television miniseries project on the life of Demetrio Chávez. He then reflected on the subject of friends in an interview with the newspaper Ojo: “I can no longer offer my friendship to anyone, now I investigate it. What people say does not matter to me, but what God thinks of me does. Do you think I am going to care what journalists think? If that were the case, I would be poor and dead.” Of course he did not care. For several years, he held ceremonies with the former president of the Superior Court of Callao, Walter Ríos Montalvo, leader of ‘Los Cuellos Blancos del Puerto’, investigated for criminal organization and money laundering. He also presented on ‘Sábados con Andrés’ as “exemplary characters” the businessmen Zamir Villaverde García, on July 4, 2021, and Sada Goray Chong, on October 9 of the same year. Coincidentally, both are involved in alleged bribe payments to officials of the government of former President Pedro Castillo. And they also face investigations for money laundering, a crime with which Andrés Hurtado’s friends always appear to be related.
“Let me know if anyone from the government (of Pedro Castillo) dares to delay any housing,” Chibolín told Goray. As the businesswoman herself has confessed, at that time she was fighting to obtain millionaire real estate projects from the Mivivienda program for her company Marka Group, and to have a piece of land that belonged to the State recognized as hers. Pilar Tijero Fernández Dávila, who was then her friend and right-hand woman, introduced her to her cousin, the journalist Mauricio Fernandini, and he put Goray in touch with the head of advisors at the Ministry of Housing, Salatiel Marrufo. The businesswoman paid Marrufo a bribe of S/5.4 million and thus got what she wanted.
Fernandini revealed to the Prosecutor’s Office how Sada Goray made contact with Chibolín before the interview on her program: “At the beginning of September 2021, my cousin Pilar Tijero told me that I should accompany them (with Goray) to a dinner at the restaurant ‘La Cuadra de Salvador’. First Sada Goray arrived and (then) Pilar Tijero, and then I arrived. We went to a private session at the restaurant and when we were moving, my friend Andrés Hurtado contacted me. And Sada Goray told me: ‘I want to meet Andrés.’” Chibolín thus achieved what would apparently be Goray, like others who appeared on ‘Sábados de Andrés’: a new client in the shadows.
