Gonzalo Monteverdeinvolved in The Odebrecht case for alleged money launderingnow has a reward that has increased from 100 thousand to half a million soles for his capture and timely information that leads to his location. This was declared on September 21 through the Ministry of the Interior Rewards Program.
Monteverde Bussalleu He is accused of being part of an international criminal organization, led by the Odebrecht business groupwhich was intended to bribe politicians and public officials to obtain contracts with the Statefor which reason he is being identified as the financial operator of this company in Peru.
The businessman Bussalleu is fugitive from justice since May 2019. On September 8, 2021, he was added to the most wanted list by the Home Officefollowing an analysis by the Commission for the Evaluation of Rewards Against Crime (Cerci).
Processes that Gonzalo Monteverde had
On March 12, 2019, at the hearing held by the judge Manuel Antonio Chuyo Zavaleta of the Third The National Preparatory Investigation Court of the SEDCF declared the request for preventive detention for a period of 36 months against those investigated to be well-founded. Gonzalo Eduardo Monteverde BussalleuMaria Isabel Carmona Bernasconi and Jorge Wilfredo Salinas Coaguila.
This is because the five conditions established in article 268 of the CPP were met and because there were well-founded and serious elements of conviction to grant said measure.
In addition, it was ordered that a letter be sent to the head of the request for information. Judicial Police for the immediate location and capture of the aforementioned persons under investigation, in which Bussalleu is currently missing.
On January 7, 2020, the Judiciary ordered the seizure of properties linked to Monteverde. The prosecutor Jose Domingo Perezheaded said seizure procedure for confiscation purposes, authorized by the judge Jorge Chavez Tamarizfor the alleged commission of the crime of money laundering against the State.
On October 12, 2022, the First Office of the First Specialized Supraprovincial Prosecutor’s Office in Crimes of Corruption of Public Officials – Special Team, led by the provincial prosecutor Jose Domingo Perez Gomezcarried out a seizure of two real estate properties, owned by the legal entity AREYNS DEL MAR SAC, linked to Gonzalo Monteverde Bussalleu.
Representatives of the Public Prosecutor’s Office They were moved to the properties located at Av. Santa María N 110 – District of Santa María del Mar, to then be handed over to officials of the PRONABI for its administration.
The seizures were carried out within the framework of the case “Construmaq“, which investigates companies allegedly used by the construction company Odebrecht to laundering illicit assets.
Brazilian judge José Dias Toffoli dismisses evidence against Gonzalo Monteverde
On August 14, Brazil’s supreme federal judge, Jose Antonio Dias Toffolideclared the illegality and unreliability of the evidence from Odebrecht’s Structural Operations Sector that the Brazilian Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office shared with the Peruvian prosecutor’s office in the investigation against Gonzalo Eduardo Monteverde Bussalleu.
Toffoli The court considered that this evidence, obtained through a “leniency” agreement with Odebrecht, was transferred without a chain of custody and violated the human rights of the directors and former directors of the construction company.
Any evidence derived from these tests was also found to be invalid. In addition, it prohibited future judicial collaboration between Brazil and Peru in relation to these tests.
Brazilian judge says evidence is unreliable. Photo: La República.
