After learning that Rodrigo Cuba denounced Melissa Paredes for the crimes of extortion and blackmail, because the model had told him -according to Magaly Medina- “if you don’t do this or that, I’m going to file a complaint (…) you are going to have 20 years in prison and you are never going to see your daughter”, Correo consulted with a lawyer about the difference between the two crimes.
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It should be noted that said couple has been facing each other in the media after meeting an ampay-in October 2021- from Paredes with a dancer from the Reinas del Show program.
According to Marlene Zapata Gonzales, from Gálvez Monteagudo Abogados, blackmail and extortion are crimes classified in our Penal Code as damage to property.
“Let us emphasize that both are multi-offensive crimes, that is to say that several legal rights are affected, in extortion the patrimony is affected, but also personal freedom, life, health, physical integrity and in blackmail the patrimony and individual freedom. ”, he explained.
Along these lines, he explained that in extortion there is the use of violence or threats against the life or integrity of the victim or holding a person hostage (called extortive kidnapping) forcing the victim to give him an economic advantage. For these cases there is one for the basic type between 10 and 15 years.
“In extortion, what matters is the existence of a certain act of violence or manner of such magnitude, whether it is against the victim himself or a third party that is forced to deliver some good that has an economic value in favor of the agent,” he explained.
Likewise, it pointed out that, in blackmail, the victim is made aware that an act or conduct that could potentially harm him or related third parties will be disclosed, denounced or published, with a sentence of between three and six years.
“In blackmail, the fact or conduct that is intended to be disclosed may or may not be false, but it must generate a real and imminent anxiety in the victim so that they can buy the agent’s silence. The conduct then implies that there is some kind of economic advantage for the agent, but unlike extortion, there is no violence or threat to life or physical integrity, ”he added.
