The Minister of the Interior, Vicente Tiburcio, presented before the Congressional Constitution Commission the citizen security measures that the Executive Branch seeks to implement through the request of legislative powers, highlighting a series of reforms to the Penal Code focused on hitting the internal structure of crime and corruption.
The minister began his intervention by detailing the progress made during his administration, reporting the dismantling of 18 criminal organizations and 1,674 criminal gangs, the capture of more than 9,000 individuals and the seizure of 803 firearms.
Tiburcio announced the implementation of the Celador plan, which seeks to improve patrolling with more police on the streets and the use of the crime map in each police station.
Regarding the new regulatory proposals, the head of the Ministry proposed modifying the criminal code to create the crime of revealing confidential information in the framework of criminal investigations and police actions. The minister warned that the leak of classified information is a “serious threat that weakens the State from within”, frustrates police work and exposes victims of extortion to retaliation. The measure seeks to ensure that any official (prosecutor or police) who commits this crime is permanently removed from office.
Along the same lines, he proposed increasing the penalty for the crime of resistance or disobedience, raising it from 5 to 8 years, with the aim of making it “truly dissuasive” and restricting the excessive use of the benefit of suspension of the sentence.
Furthermore, to confront extortion, he proposed incorporating new criminal types that punish conduct prior to the crime, that is, criminally punishing the simple act of threatening or demanding payment of an economic benefit without having to wait for the criminal to receive the money, allowing the State to act more quickly.
The minister also focused proposals against the source of financing and intelligence of the crime. It seeks to modify the Computer Crimes Law to expressly criminalize the black market for stolen data (acquisition, marketing and trafficking of computer data obtained illicitly).
Additionally, a forceful measure has been proposed against illegal mining: creating a new crime to punish the entire value chain, from extraction to marketing and export of illegal mineral, eliminating for this crime the benefit of the principle of opportunity.
Tiburcio announced the creation of the National File of Financial Ownership, a centralized system that will be supervised by the Superintendence of Banking, Insurance and AFP (SBS), and that will allow investigators to access in 24 hours information on who the owner is and the type of accounts or financial products owned by a person investigated for money laundering.
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