Raúl Enrique Prado Ravines, the leader of the organization known as the Death squad, who created false criminal scenarios to simulate successful police operations and give the perception that there were effective results in the fight against crime, is an old acquaintance of the Interior Minister, Juan José Santiváñez.
And it is that before becoming part of the Executive Power and becoming one of the favorite ministers of the President of the Republic, Dina Boluarte, Santiváñez was a lawyer for the leader of the death squad, the PNP commander Raúl Enrique Prado Ravines, who This case has a sentence pending execution of 35 years in prison, is a fugitive from justice and weighs on it a reward of 100,000 soles in exchange for its capture.
It must be for those ancient amic ties that the minister, last Tuesday, made the reference to the death squad that operated in Trujillo nothing less than at a work table convened by the Congress of the Republic in which the issue of Citizen insecurity.
There, Santiváñez had no better idea than to maintain that the increase in crime in the northern city was “to put the police in them after inventing a squad of death.”
This, however, is not the first time that the member of the Adrianzén Cabinet openly defends such criminal organizations.
Background
In May 2024, days after assuming the leadership of the Ministry of Interior, in exclusive interview with Peru21defended the presumption of innocence of his expatrocinated Prado Ravines forgetting his obligation to ensure compliance with the law that in this case translated into guaranteeing compliance with the judgment issued by the Judiciary.
“You have to be very careful with that point because I understand that (the sentence) is appealed, and constitutionally while the sentence is not consented and executed the presumption of premium innocence,” he said.
He added that the legal effects of the sentence are subject to confirmation or revocation that may be in the second instance. “The judge in the first instance can determine whether the sentence is fulfilled effectively or in a suspended manner, but the provision of these rights is maintained as long as the sentence is consented,” he insisted.
Two days after that interview with Peru21the minister had no better idea than to appoint lawyer Máximo Ramírez de la Cruz as general director of the Ministry of the Interior Police.
And who is Ramírez de la Cruz? A lawyer who became known to defend the police who integrated the death squad headed by Prado Ravines.
As if that were not enough, in January of this year the Ministry of Interior gave the green light to the hiring of the legal defense of Raúl Prado Ravines for an amount of 50,000 soles.
The measure was justified by Juan José Santiváñez who claimed that the aforementioned expense is protected by the current legal regulations that establish that every public official involved in judicial proceedings related to the exercise of their functions has the right to be defended by the State. That is, the State paying the defense of those who acted in the State of the State.
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