The former president of the Board of Superior Prosecutors of Callao Carlos Manuel Saenz Loayza he became the first magistrate to be sentenced, after a public trial, for the case The White Necks of the Port.
The Special Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice He was sentenced to six years of imprisonment, disqualified from holding public office for 10 years and the payment of a civil compensation of 100,000 soles for crimes of influence peddling and negotiation incompatible with the position.
Based on the accusation presented by the Supreme Prosecutor for the Los Cuellos Blancos del Puerto case, the court established that Saenz Loayza took advantage of his position as superior prosecutor to intercede in a contentious administrative process initiated by the citizen Felipe Navarro Rodas against Municipality of Callaoduring the management of Juan Sotomayor Casas.
In addition, Sáenz Loayza intervened in favor of both parties, It was a kind of double agent where he would obtain personal benefits, no matter who the judges in Callao agreed with.
The audio recordings of telephone interceptions, records of calls and visits to his officeas well as the statement of others involved, made it possible to establish that in October 2017 the then superior prosecutor offered Sotomayor to have the lawsuit Navarro Rhodes is trapped in the Reports Table of the Court of Callao or was rejected outright.
At the same time, in parallel, he received a visit in his office from Navarro Rojas and offered to achieve the withdrawal of the claim or that, if it were admitted for processing, he could file a withdrawal document.
Walter Ríos is considered one of the leaders of the Los Cuellos Blancos del Puerto network. Photo: diffusion.
In a call recorded at 12:36 m. on October 20, 2017, Sáenz told the lawyer César Salinas Bedón who requires the number of a certain Guido to ask him not to prosper the entry of a lawsuit filed by Felipe Navarro against the Municipality of Callao.
Later, Salinas He returns the call and informs him that the lawsuit has already been entered by the Filing Table, but that you can talk to another contact to paralyze your process in the civil courtwhere there was a person with whom you could talk for that purpose.
Judgment
Judge. The Supreme Prosecutor’s Office had already obtained a sentence of five years and 7 months in prison for the former judge Ricardo Chang Racuay for bribery, but for early termination. He also sentences her to Walter Rios 12 years, in effective collaboration.
