The representative of the Public Ministry, Jose Domingo Perez, spoke about the progress being made by the Public Ministry in relation to the Cocktails case and slipped that the trial against the leader of Fuerza Popular, Keiko Fujimoriin addition to George Yoshiyama and others involved could take place at the end of this year. However, he clarified that everything will depend on the provisions of the Judiciary.
“We consider that if the Judiciary provides the mechanisms and means that allow the procedural discharge of the judge who is conducting the Keiko Fujimori case, and continuous or consecutive hearing sessions can be held, I think we may be entering judgment in the second half of this year. Keiko Fujimori, Jorge Yoshiyama and others involved could be judged at the end of this year”, he indicated in dialogue with TV Peru.
In this sense, Domingo Pérez asserted that the investigations by the Prosecutor’s Office have already concluded in March 2021. Therefore, recalled that they have been involved 40 individuals and 2 people legal entities, including the Fuerza Popular party. “Procedurally we are in an intermediate stage, a stage known as control of the accusation,” he said.
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Also, he referred to the lapse that Fujimori Higuchi committed last Saturday, February 5, during an interviewwhen he stated that the political group he leads received contributions from illicit sources for his presidential campaign.
“There has been a situation that reveals what the Prosecutor’s Office has been stating during this last period of time, that there is a case that deserves to be tried and, if the criminal responsibility of the accused is determined, let it be a judge or judges who impose a conviction”, said José Domingo Pérez.
About Giancarlo Bertini
The representative of Public ministry He also spoke about the businessman Giancarlo Bertini Vivancowho returned to the country and appeared before the Judge Victor Zuniga after having fled abroad in 2018.
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“Giancarlo Bertini has an important participation because he is the person in charge of capturing those who are going to present themselves as false contributors. That is, the people who end up carrying out the ‘pitufeo’, a term that the media has made known as the modality of Popular Force to launder this money, “he said. Sunday Perez.
What were Keiko Fujimori’s cocktails?
The cocktails of the leader of People’s Force They were activities organized by the Fujimori party to raise funds to pay for the presidential campaign of its leader.
The facts show that For the 2016 campaign, Fuerza Popular organized six fundraising activities, that is, half a dozen cocktails. In these events, as reported by the same Fujimori party, 4 million 606 thousand 218 soles were collected.