Free. José Luis Luna Morales, elected mayor of Lima for Podemos Peru, He was released this Tuesday, November 8 after the Third Criminal Appeals Chamber of the National Superior Court decided to revoke the order of 34 months of preventive detention imposed against him.
Indeed, Moon Morales He was released inside the Ancón I prison after staying for about 21 days after he was detained by requisition officers at the facilities of a local radio station.
Upon leaving prison, the former congressman also went to the local We can Peru, where he was received by supporters of the party and by the former candidate for mayor of Lima Daniel Urresti.
Next, the also son of José Luna Gálvez, owner of the private university Telesupgave a ‘balconazo’ where he thanked his followers for their support and highlighted the messages received on his social networks.
“Thank you for always being with me in this unfair moment.. An investigation that was put together in 2020, days after the vacancy that We can Peru he was leading to blackmail us and change our vote. At that time, we did not bow down and neither do we now,” he said.
Last October 10, the Seventh National Preparatory Investigation Courtby Judge Jorge Chávez Tamariz, issued 34 months of preventive detention against José Luna Morales within the framework of the alleged crimes of criminal organization and specific active bribery in the case previously known as The Gangsters of Politics.
However, the Court of Appeals ordered his immediate release, as long as there is no other arrest warrant. Instead of preventive detention, the collegiate imposed him appearance with restrictions, impediment to leave the country for 18 months and the payment of a guarantee of S/ 500,000.
“This investigation is not new. The prosecutors have been investigating. We have to respect what he Public ministry He has been investigating since 2018. That cannot be prohibited. The Prosecutor’s Office continues to persecute us and coincidentally they do so during the electoral campaign. There is something strange, ”she limited.
José Luna Morales would be part of a criminal organization, according to the Prosecutor’s Office
Jose Luna Morales is accused by the Prosecutor of being a member of a criminal organization integrated by his father José Luna Gálvez, investigated —along with others involved— for the crimes of money laundering and criminal organization during the National Solidarity campaigns in 2011 and 2014.
For the Public Ministry, Luna Morales would have paid the former members of the disappeared National Council of the Judiciary (CNM) Guido Eagle Degrees, Sergio Noguera Ramos Y Julio Gutierrez Pebe with the objective of influence the election process of the head of the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) in 2017, in which he was the winner Adolfo Castillo Meza.
