The Supreme Court of Justice declared in part the appeal of the prosecutor José Domingo Pérezwho requested a reexamal of the fiscal measure that ordered the lifting of his bank secrecy, within the framework of the investigation that is followed by alleged illicit enrichment. In accordance with the Permanent Criminal Chamber, the period in which Domingo Pérez He served as prosecutor of the Special Lava Jato Teamnot from previous times.
In this way, the measure of lifting of bank secrecy and the Tax and stock reserve will include the period January 2014 to March 2021.
The resolution of the Chamber led by César San Martín recalled that the acquisition of the Volvo car, one of the assets for which the Prosecutor’s Office suspects an alleged illicit enrichment, was counted and was carried out on March 8, 2021.
The same had supported Domingo Pérezwho in the appeal presented alleged that the date of acquisition of the vehicle does not correspond to the date that includes the measure of lifting of bank secrecy. The same goes for the Tax and stock reserve, which are not related to the temporary framework of the investigation object.
The Prosecutor’s Office investigates José Domingo Pérez for the alleged crime of illicit enrichment. Photo: The Republic.
Case chronology
As recalled, the Third Superior Court of Preparatory Investigation, on April 19, 2024, declared the requirement to lift bank secrecy and the tax and stock market reserve of the investigation in the period from December 15, 2011 to January 10 of 2024.
After that, the prosecutor requested a first reexamal of the measure arguing that “the temporal framework must be related to March 8, two thousand and twenty -one (when the vehicle was acquired), not on December fifteenth of two thousand eleven to fifteen December of December of two thousand twenty -three (as requested) “.
However, the aforementioned Court declared the application inadmissible, although Domingo Pérez had supported that his constitutional rights were violated “only for being or exercising the position of provincial prosecutor specialized in crimes of the corruption of officials of the fiscal district of Lima”.
Consequently, Domingo Pérez requested for the second time a reexamal of the fiscal measure, which was once again rejected. The Superior Court of Preparatory Investigation “considered that although the Prosecutor’s Office clarified that the object of this investigation is the purchase of the Volvo Marca car held on March 8, two thousand and twenty -one, this does not limit or restrict the investigation for the crime of Illicit enrichment at that time; Twenty -three, when he presented his affidavit. ”
Given this, Domingo Pérez’s defense filed the appeal that was resolved today.
