“I am very worried: what were previously threats through WhatsApp already went to action.” The Retiro Colonel Harvey Colchado He summoned an “urgent” conference to expose what qualifies as serious events that compromise their personal and family safety: alleged lawsuits in activity and death threats aimed at him and his children.
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Artificial intelligence
The test dates from August 15, when a third -party third of the Dirincri (Criminal Investigation Directorate) He was detected in front of his office, for about five hours, even taking images of the building where he works in the center of Lime. “He remained about five hours watching. He took photographs with his cell phone to my office. He was identified by neighbors when the security personnel intervened. Prosecutor’s Office.
The colonel showed a message received on September 1 at 5:41 pm in which they insult and warn him: “We already know your office in the center of Lima and your house in commas (…) you will cry blood.” The threat also included their children: “Your children are going to pay. You’ll see.”
He recalled that in May the same telephone number, identified as “Purito Lead”, had already sent photographs of his children by entering school. “That is no longer subjective. It is something objective. In May I denounced the fact to the police and now it is part of a fiscal folder in organized crime,” he explained.
To this he added another episode: on October 17 of last year they left a threatening letter at the door of their children’s house: “Damn son of a bitch, you will see blood of your most beloved beings, it takes, but it is not forgotten.” Colchado insisted: “We are not talking about messages nothing more: they are objective things.”
No police protection
Colchado also questioned that, despite those threats, the police decided to withdraw the security that was assigned: “The month of May of this year, the general commander, José Zanabria Angulosigned the resolution withdrawing safety, despite supporting threats against me. Now I solve my personal shelter and that of my family. ”
He said that he had to buy a bulletproof vest and that, although he acquired the firearm that corresponds to him by retirement, the state has not delivered it: “I am obliged to use a particular weapon of smaller caliber. It is another form of harassment.”
“I have investigated power”
The former police chief linked the increase in threats to his work against corruption networks: “I assume that it is because I have investigated power. I continue using my networks to spread what is happening and the means of proof that exist. That bothers them. That is why they want to shut up.”
Warned: “If you dare with a policeman who has a weapon, imagine with a journalist who has no weapons. It’s very dangerous”to be consulted by the case of the head of the Panamericana Televisión Research Unit, Karla Ramírezwho denounced that he came information that, from the intelligence of the PNP, would be planning an attack against him.
Colchado said he is not the only one in the sight. “I have talked with intelligence agents in activity and retirement. They know those who have done these marking and adjustment activities. Not only to me: also to prosecutors, police who have investigated the government and journalists who reveal new facts. They are afraid to declare, but I trust that they do so before the Prosecutor’s Office,” he emphasized.
He affirmed that there are already a history: in March 2024, Digimin personnel would have followed the son of the president of the Superior Court of Lima. And in April, to the general commander of Angulo, who detected two police officers watching him. “No one knows until today who gave those orders,” he said. In addition, he compared the current situation with the dictatorship of Alberto Fujimori: “We are oriented to the era of Fujimontesinism, with the disastrous use of intelligence for bad purposes, as in the 90s.”
Names and responsibilities
At the conference, Colchado said he already delivered information to the Prosecutor’s Office on high police officers and a former minister linked to the deactivation of the special team he led. “I am a witness in that investigation,” he said.
He mentioned that he presented evidence against General Commander Zanabria, the Chief of the General Staff General Oscar Arriola and other police officers: “The police depend on the Executive. There is the thread of the skein. They should not be colluded with bad elements that lend themselves to this type of activities,” he added.
Colchado also questioned that Juan José Santibáñez, former Minister of the Interior, today be Minister of Justice: “That man cannot be in that ministry. He has been a lawyer of sentenced for organized crime: ‘Shakira’, ‘The octopuses’, ‘The devil’. He knows criminals. I do not want to think what could happen if he uses the position for personal or government benefits”.
He also requested that penitentiary management be investigated under his responsibility: “Santibáñez allows an INPE chief with several complaints to continue in office.”
“They won’t break me”
When closing, Colchado made it clear that he will not go back: “I am not afraid of them. They will not break me. While they act behind the scenes, I give my face and denounce their illegal facts. This is like in the 90s, with the Fujimontesinism. The power is ephemeral: sooner or early they will know who they are those that lend themselves to these activities.”
He asked the Prosecutor’s Office to cite the Dirincri NCO, review its geolocation, the photos taken and determine under what authorization acted. He also urged that agents who receive adjustment orders declare: “As happened with the Colina group, they will go to them.”
The complaint of matchado – with videos, captures and documents – revives the memory of a country marked by the illegal use of intelligence in the nineties. The colonel ensures that today the employer is repeated: adjustment to opponents, witnesses, prosecutors and journalists.
“It is the first time that threats come to my children, at my home, to my office. It is a badly precedent. If allowed, it can cover other investigations. We are reaching a level of total insecurity,” he concluded.
