The Ministry of the Interior approved paying for the legal defense of PNP commander Raúl Prado Ravines, sentenced to 35 years in prison for the Death Squad case, and who was a client of the minister Juan José Santiváñez.
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According to the portal of the State Procurement Supervisory Body (Osce), the Mininter will disburse S/50,000 to pay the lawyer of the fugitive former police officer.
In 2022, Prado Ravines was convicted of leading a group of PNP officers who committed extrajudicial executions between 2012 and 2015.
The former commander committed the crime of qualified homicide against citizens Raúl Rivas Rimaycuna, Martín Tello Monja, Gian Fiestas Aquino and Hugo Yajahuanca Tineo, who were murdered in Piura in the middle of a false operation orchestrated by the armed group.
In May of this year, Minister Santiváñez acknowledged that he was Prado’s lawyer in administrative proceedings before the National Police.
“I defended Commander Prado and a group of subordinates, but at an administrative level, achieving his acquittal in the Internal Affairs Office, when Carlos Basombrío served as Minister,” he declared at that time.
Raúl Prado, meanwhile, is still facing criminal proceedings for homicide. The ministry rewards S/100,000 for providing information about his whereabouts.
