The phrase “increase Keiko for 500 and eu fazer visit”, found on the cell phone from Marcelo Odebrechtwas presented as evidence of the prosecution to support the accusation against Keiko Fujimori for the crime of money laundering.
This phrase was found in the electronic agenda of Marcelo Odebrecht and it was written between the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011, in the midst of the 2011 presidential election campaign.
Those words in Portuguese, which translate as “increase Keiko to 500 and pay a visit”, they would refer to the delivery of an additional half million dollars to the candidate of Fujimori.
According to the statement of Marcelo Odebrechtwhen they asked Jorge Barata to make a contribution to Ollanta Humala’s campaign, he replied that it was not a business to support him and that his partners could get upset.
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That is why, Odebrecht explained, it responded to cheap to make a greater contribution to the campaign Keiko Fujimorito give him another $500,000, which he noted in his diary, adding that he should visit her.
The phrase and all the details and statements that give context were presented by the deputy prosecutor Paulina Roque at the hearing conducted by the judge Victor Zuniga Urdayof the control of the judicial accusation against the leader of Fuerza Popular.
Bertini
The Prosecutor’s Office also presented evidence of the relationship between Giancarlo Bertini Vivanco, character who surrendered to justice last Friday, with the undeclared contributions to the Fujimori campaign in 2011.
Paulina Roque, deputy prosecutor of the José Domingo Pérez prosecutor’s office, argued that “Patrizia Coppero del Valle and Giancarlo Bertini Vivancoboth as spouses, had a bond of friendship with Jorge Yoshiyama Sasaki, for which they make contributions to the 2011 campaign through the company Officer USA SA
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Later, Jorge Yoshiyama asks him to deposit other amounts of money. According to Daniel Mellado’s statement, on March 9, 2011, upon arriving at the Officer USA offices, he saw an amount of money in $50 and $100 bills on the desk.
Then, Bertini asks him to deposit that money in the Fuerza Popular accounts, whose number he writes down and gives him on a piece of paper. “Instructs you to go with security personnel and try to enter the money in small amounts,” recalled the Prosecutor’s Office.
Thus, “Mellado went to a Scotiabank agency and deposited various sums of money, less than US $ 5,000 so that there are no questions.”
In total, Daniel Mellado, an employee of Officer USA SA, managed to enter more than US$477,073 in 91 deposits to the party force 2011.
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The Prosecutor’s Office has been presenting the charges and the evidence that supports the accusation against Keiko Fujimori and 32 other people for the crime of money laundering. The control hearings of the accusation are the step prior to the public trial.
“Hearings are held twice a week”
The control hearings of the accusation for money laundering against Keiko Fujimori They are carried out twice a week, in morning and afternoon shifts, with the aim that this process ends this year and the public trial against Keiko Fujimori begins immediately and other leaders of Fuerza Popular.
Although it will be difficult for this process to conclude this year due to the number of people involved, in addition to legal entities. Among the latter, the same People’s Force and the companies of Mark Vitusthe husband of the presidential candidate.
The surrender of Giancarlo Bertini, who had been a fugitive from justice for the last two years, could give the case a new impetus.
