Martín Vizcarra He arrived yesterday very confident at the audience. He smiled at the cameras, greeted his supporters and repeated that they would not dictate preventive detention. But that security became nervous in the afternoon. As he listened to the arguments of Judge Jorge Chávez Tamariz, the former president bit his fingers, tear and his gestures were uneasy. He sensed that his destination was the Barbadillo prison.
Despite all the evidence against him, who compromise him in the collection of millionaire coimas, the only one surprised with the judicial decision was the ex -president and his lawyers.
At the beginning of the diligence, prosecutor Germán Juárez insisted that there are enough evidence confirming that Vizcarra received S/2.3 million in bribes from the company workinsa and ICCGSA when he was regional governor of Moquegua (2011-2014).
Juarez recalled that even the managers of both companies were luxurious as detail how they delivered the money to the former head of state – in banknotes within envelopes – in exchange for winning the Lomas de Ilo irrigation project and the construction of the Moquegua Hospital.
But his speech stressed that the former regional governor tried to mislead the authorities by presenting contracts with his family’s companies to prove labor roots.
The member of the Special Lava Jato team, in that line, claimed that only the preventive detention for six months could ensure that Vizcarra Cornejo is submitted to the trial that, in parallel and in the same case, conducts the fourth collegiate criminal court.
The prosecutor gave as an example that the former lady Nadine Heredia was able
He also added that in the Metro de Lima case, former vice minister Jorge Cuba escaped from the country before being convicted because he was not detained.
“What is required is to ensure the aims of criminal proceedings, not only to ensure the judgments but before a conviction is executed,” Juarez said.
Judge warned play
From 2:00 pm, Judge Chávez Tamariz began to read his ruling and from the beginning made it clear that they would be the last hours of Biscarra free.
The magistrate hosted the alerts of prosecutor Juárez and concluded that the former president tried to surprise him by showing the contracts he signed in June with the Urbaniza 3D SAC company, founded by his wife Maribel Díaz Cabello and his daughters.
And not just that. He questioned that the signer of the documents has been Mónica García Mendoza, legal representative of the company and also a worker of the study of Martín Vizcarra’s lawyer.
“The contract is questionable because the property of the contractor is not only managed by his wife but has as founding partners his daughters,” the judge exclaimed. “All this was deliberately instrumentalized to generate a labor roots,” he said.
In addition, Chávez said that the former governor acknowledged that a signature of his stamped in a document of November 6, 2013, when he was regional governor, was not signed by him but from another public official.
That admission to the magistrate was evidence that the defendant sought to adapt the story that allows him to maintain that he was in Moquegua and not in Lima, since an effective collaborator revealed that on that date Vizcarra was in the capital receiving a coima of work in the work Lomas de Ilo.
In this way, the judge decided to dictate five months of preventive detention for the founder of the Peru first party, which has been disabled to apply in the 2026 elections and that until the end has been victimized as a politician.
Last night, from his social networks a video recorded by him was published before the audience where he indicates that he “already knew” that they would dictate the arrest “because there is a mafia pact that is governing Peru from the shadows.”
Thus, with drowned swings, a former governor who did not hesitate to vaccinate against the COVID-19 on his back to the country, which he did not know how to manage the distribution of oxygen in that emergency and was vacciated as a consequence.
Now, from Barbadillo, where his peers Ollanta Humala, Alejandro Toledo and Pedro Castillo are held, will have to face the trial and listen to the sentence that can lead him to keep him up to 15 years in prison.
