The head of the General Directorate of Intelligence of the National Police, Luis Sánchez Lira, his predecessor Whitman Ríos Adrianzén and PNP commander Mario Hidalgo Yen will be investigated for alleged abuse of authority for attempting to remove Colonel PNP Harvey Colchado from the Search Division for fugitives from justice.
The investigation will be carried out by prosecutor Mario Barrón Cerna, from the second office of the First Prosecutor’s Office Corporativa Penal de San Isidro-Lince, in response to a complaint made by the superior prosecutor and coordinator of the Special Team of Prosecutors against the Corruption of Power, in charge of investigating the surroundings of the President of the Republic, peter castle.
Sánchez Lira and Ríos Adrianzén will be investigated for abuse of authority and Mario Hidalgo, chosen to replace Colchado in the aforementioned Search Division, must answer for alleged usurpation of functions.
The investigation begins with a complaint filed by the senior prosecutor coordinating the Special Team of Prosecutors against the Corruption of Power, Marita Barreto Rivera, last September 14, after an attempt was made to remove Colchado.
Marita Barreto denounced that the change of Colonel Colchado would affect the coordinated work of the prosecution and the Policeman in the investigation of a alleged criminal organization that had entrenched itself in the Executive Power.
With the formation of an efficient binomial (Special Team of prosecutors and Special Support Team pnp), the results were obvious and were noticed in a very short time (one month), achieving the delivery to the authorities of those under investigation who were in hiding, carrying out operations and raids, and arrests in order to paralyze illegal acts that the police would be carrying out. alleged criminal organization, Barreto said.
Despite this efficient work, on September 12, the director of Digimin, Luis Sánchez Lira, issued a memorandum, authorized by Ríos Adrianzén, which removed Harvey Colchado from his post and named Commander Mario Hidalgo as his replacement. The bottom line of that change was to leave without budget and interfere in the support that Colchado gives to the prosecution.
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Citation. Under use of force driving warning, The Prosecutor’s Office summoned Whitman Ríos, Luis Sánchez and Mario Hidalgo to testify on October 12 in the afternoon. That same day, in the morning, Colonel Harvey Colchado and the Attorney General of the Ministry will have to do the same.
