Behind the municipal debate held this Sunday, September 25, the name of Jose Luna Morales gained notoriety after the journalist Josefina Townsend embarrassed Daniel Urresticandidate for We can Peruafter asking him “in whose hands” the capital would remain if he won and took office, in case the Judiciary declared him responsible for the death of Hugo Bustios.
In theory, if the former congressman is elected as the new mayor authority, but is sentenced for the murder case against the press man, his deputy mayor would have to succeed him. If this is the case, it would be José Luna Morales, who, like Urresti, is also being investigated by the Prosecutor’s Office.
“You, candidate Urresti, has an open process for the murder of journalist Hugo Bustíos. If found guilty and elected mayor, his place would be taken by the candidate for deputy mayor, Mr. José Luna Morales. He is being investigated in the ‘Gangsters of Politics’ case for corruption. In hands of who would be Lima?”was the approach of the moderator of the debate.
In that sense, who is Jose Luna Moralesthe Podemos Peru candidate who is running as deputy mayor of Lima?
José Luna Morales and ‘The gangsters of politics’
Jose Luna Morales He is the son of current congressman José Luna Gálvez, leader of Podemos Peru and owner of the former Telesup Private University. Both are in the sights of the Public Ministry for allegedly forming a criminal organization called ‘The gangsters of politics’.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, this gang would have infiltrated the former National Council of the Judiciary (CNM), the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) and the National Elections Jury to influence the appointment of certain officials.
This would be the case of Adolfo Castillo Meza, who would have been chosen as head of the ONPE to achieve the registration of Podemos Peru and that, in this way, he could participate in the 2018 electoral process.
The role that Luna Jr. apparently fulfilled was as a representative of his father, the presumed leader of the organization. Luna Morales would have bought the wills of the members of the then National Council of the Judiciary, an instance that was in charge of appointing the heads of the electoral entities.
The Public Ministry opened a process for the current candidate for deputy mayor of Lima two years ago, but could not be investigated by the parliamentary immunity that he enjoyed when he was a congressman. However, Luna Sr. has house arrest for a measure of appearance at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office. The investigation is suspended.
Josefina Townsend: users support her after altercation with Daniel Urresti in debate
During the presentation of proposals, the press woman asked the Podemos Peru candidate about a possible sentence regarding the case for the murder of Hugo Bustíos. After hearing the question, the politician decided to avoid the subject. However, during the commercial break, he went to rebuke the communicator.
Josefina Townsend and Daniel Urresti were the protagonists of a tense moment during the 2022 municipal debate. Photo: capture/debate 2022
Daniel Urresti: candidate’s lawyer frustrates hearing on case of the murder of Hugo Bustíos
“Disaster of candidates, none deserve to govern Lima, demagoguery, boorishness, the winner was Josefina Townsend, who did what every journalist should do”, “I already decided my vote. I hope Josefina Townsend is a good mayor”, “The only good thing about the debate is Josefina Townsend” and “I already have someone to vote for… If only Josefina Townsend were an option”, were some of the hundreds of comments on social networks.
The Third National Superior Criminal Chamber Transitory Liquidator of the Power of attorney postponed the hearing that has been taking place in the case of the murder of Hugo Bustios against the candidate for mayor of Lima Daniel Urresti. This after the defense of the former Minister of the Interior did not attend the meeting due to “health problems”.
Among the activities that were to be carried out in the hearing on Tuesday, September 27, by the PJ was the analysis of the request of the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Daniel Urresti to go from indirect perpetrator to direct perpetrator in the case involving him in the death of Bustíos, which occurred in 1988.
However, before the presentation of the medical rest of his defense, the judge reviewing the case decided to postpone this hearing until next October 6 from 2:30 in the afternoon, four days after the 2022 municipal elections.
José Luna Morales: companies he led did not deposit AFP or ONP of employees
According to the Fourth Estate, the son of Jose Luna Galvezwho owns the political party he is a member of, is linked to institutions that owe contributions to the private and public system accounts of their workers.
According to what was published by the Sunday newspaper, since 2005 Luna Morales was the general manager of companies that in total owe S/ 88,781 in deposits from the AFP accounts of their workers. The first is the Telesup Private Universitywith an unpaid sum of S/ 27,039, an entity led by the parliamentarian until February, after the January 26 elections. The second is the National Society of Telematics, Science and Technology Associates SAC with a debt of S/ 21,261.
Also the business name Telesup EIRL, of which the legislator was manager between September and December 2019, has a debt of the same concept for S / 20,356. The company Intur Peru EIRL neither deposited S / 9,611.
These are added to the SAC International Postgraduate School which still owes S/ 10,510 in deposits from the AFP, fact already known and for which the Parliamentary Ethics Commission of Congress refused to open an investigation against him.
José Luna Gálvez is appointed president of the Commission for the Defense of the Consumer of the Congress
Luna Galvez will take office despite the prosecution He is being investigated for the alleged crime of criminal organization and for the Lava Jato case. Among its functions will be to see the budget of State institutions, such as the Public ministrywhich precisely investigates. Prosecutor’s Office follows a process against Moon for being the alleged leader of a criminal organization that operated in the former National Council of the Judiciary so that Adolfo Castillo as head of ONPE in 2017 and, in this way, succeed in favoring the registration of your party.
Days prior to election Board of Directors of the Budget Commissionthe bench of Integrity and Development disagreed that the parliamentarian of Podemos Peru chair the working group as a result of the investigations that revolve around his person.
Updated by Emely Matos.
Updated by Edwin Montesinos.
