Chamber reschedules hearing in which it will evaluate Ollanta Humala's cassation for campaign contributions

The Permanent Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court, chaired by Judge César San Martín, rescheduled the hearing set for this Wednesday, November 2, in which it would evaluate the appeal filed by the former president Ollanta Humala against the case of money laundering that it faces.

According to the website of the Judiciary, the change of date was notified to the parties last Friday, October 28 and is due to the request for “license of the magistrate”, although it is not specified who it is.

Wilfredo Pedraza, the former president’s lawyer, confirmed to Peru21 that the diligence will be carried out on another day. “We have no information other than the fact that it was rescheduled,” she said briefly.

Judge San Martín’s personal interview before the National Justice Board (JNJ) is scheduled for November 2. The magistrate must submit a process of ratification of the charge.

The cassation filed by Humala questions the fiscal thesis of illicit contributions to the presidential campaigns of 2006 and 2011. For the former head of state, for those years the Peruvian law did not penalize fertilizers as a crime.

The decision of the supreme court would influence not only the case of the leader of the Nationalist Party, but also the trials of former presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori, former mayor Susana Villarán, and other politicians.

The supreme prosecutor Pablo Sánchez has requested the inhibition of the supreme judge when he warned that the name of San Martín appears in the agendas of Nadine Heredia, Humala’s wife. However, the magistrate refuses to attend to the request.