He Tenth National Preparatory Investigation Court of the National Superior Court of Specialized Criminal Justice has resolved to execute the ruling of the Constitutional Court, declaring the definitive dismissal (archive) of the process followed against Keiko Sofia Fujimori Higuchi and all Fuerza Popular.
The judicial resolution determines the closure of the investigation for the alleged commission of the crime of Money Laundering with the aggravating circumstance of Criminal Organization to the detriment of the Peruvian State. Likewise, the magistrate ordered the lifting of all personal and real measures that weighed on the leader of Popular Force and members of its party.
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Final file also involves members of the political party
The ruling is not limited only to Fujimori, but also extends the criteria of the Constitutional Court ruling to a long list of co-defendants and to the political party itself. Popular Force (previously Fuerza 2011). Among the names included in this final file are:
- Pier Paolo Figari Mendoza and Ana Rosa Herz.
- Jaime Yoshiyama Tanaka and José Chlimper Ackerman.
- Augusto Bedoya, Adriana Tarazona and Mark Vito (mentioned for context).
- Members of the Blanco Matsuno family, among more than 30 others investigated.
Status of other charges
Despite the file for the most serious crimes (money laundering), the document clarifies that the subsistence of the accusations for the crimes of False Declaration in Administrative Procedure and Generic Falsehood against a specific group of those investigated.
However, the judge determined that, due to the “structural and transversal” nature of the accusations that have already been dismissed, it is materially impossible to continue with the procedure in the original terms. For this reason, the return of the mixed request to the Public Ministry has been ordered so that the prosecutor can issue a new duly supported statement on the remaining charges.
