This Wednesday, September 18, the Special Team against Corruption in Power (Eficcop) incorporated into the minister Juan Jose Santivañez in the investigation that is being carried out against the general commander of the Police, General PNP Victor Zanabriafor alleged obstruction in the case The Waykis in the Shadow. One of the facts for which he will be investigated is the deactivation of the PNP Special Team who provided support to the prosecutors he heads Marita Barreto.
And it is that, according to the disposition of the provincial prosecutor Carlos Ordaya which was accessed The Republicdays after he was appointed Deputy Minister of Internal Order on April 17 of this year, received information from the Counterintelligence Directorate of the General Intelligence Directorate (Digimin) regarding the PNP Special Team was carrying out acts of investigation against Nicanor Boluartebrother of the president Dina Boluarte.
The Digimin Counterintelligence Directorate It is led by the PNP commander Ismael Edward Arroyo Rocawhom the current minister, according to Punto Final, defended in a legal process to have him reinstated in the Police. In addition, according to the Sunday newspaper, the officer is being investigated for alleged embezzlement.
The then vice minister Santiváñezaccording to what was narrated by a protected witness, informed Boluarte the information he received and told him that “it was necessary” to deactivate the PNP Special Team because the PNP colonel Franco Moreno Pantawho replaced the suspended Harvey Quilting“was not reliable.”
“Which would have been accepted by President Dina Boluarte Zegarra. It is for this reason that Santivañez Antúnez directed the technical strategy and through the general commander of the PNP, administrative and legal documents were formulated that sought to annul the resolution of creation of the PNP Special Team in support of EFICCOP,” reads the fiscal provision.
That is why, according to the Prosecutor’s Officethat the president would have summoned the PNP colonel Moreno Panta to the Government Palace on August 7, days before the Eficcop stop to Nicanor Boluarte and Matthew Castaneda. The content of the meeting was reconstructed by The Republicdetail by detail. Boluarte wanted to know what cases Marita Barreto’s special team was handling..
That same day, in the morning, Jorge Chingay Salazarfriend of Nicanorreported an alleged surveillance by agents of the PNP Special Team. However, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, intelligence actions were actually being carried out. It was then, they claim, that the president would have ordered the then minister Walter Ortiz disable the PNP Special Team.
“Immediately, the then Minister Walter Ortiz together with Juan José Santivañez Antúnez prepared Ministerial Resolution 0610-2024-IN, dated May 9, 2024, where the PNP Special Team was deactivated in support of Eficcop, with the purpose that Eficcop could not execute a possible operation to arrest Nicanor Boluarte and his other co-investigated persons, because from this deactivation, Eficcop and the prosecutor’s offices of Illicit Enrichment and Constitutional Complaints had to request police support from the police command, losing the ‘surprise’ factor, since it is evident that they would inform the President of the Republic,” the provision reads.
Other elements that would confirm that Santiváñez He would have participated directly in the deactivation of the group of officers, despite not having jurisdiction in these matters, are a statement to RPP and the testimony of the PNP captain Junior Leftknown as ‘Culebra’.
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According to the tax provision, Juan Jose Santivañezwhen he was head of the Mininter’s advisory cabinet, would have colluded with the PNP general Victor Zanabria to create the Disciplinary Office 16 of Lima, an office that immediately opened disciplinary proceedings against Harvey Quilting and removed him from the position of head of the Diviac.
