More than S/ 3 million seized from accounts of Vladimir Cerrón

At the request of the money laundering prosecutor Richard Rojas Gómez, the Judiciary has seized more than S/3 million 22 thousand contained in eleven bank accounts that belonged to the investigated Vladimir Cerrón Rojas, political party founder Free Peru, as well as his mother, Bertha Rojas Lopez.

The measure was authorized in the course of the last week by the judge Jorge Chavez Tamariz in a research that is followed by both alleged money laundering, in which it is alleged that money of suspicious origin was used for various purposes, including financing the political campaigns of Peru Libre at the district, provincial, regional, congressional and presidential levels.

In total, there are five accounts of Bertha Rojas those that were affected and six those of Cerrón. Rojas López had more than 90 thousand soles in his savings accounts at Banco de la Nación, while at Credicorp he had an account in soles and dollars that together exceeded one million soles. In the case of the former regional governor of Junín, He had more than S/377 thousand in a BBVA savings account and more than S/1.2 million in an Interbank account.

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According to the judicial resolution accessed by this newspaper, the prosecution raised to seize these accounts on August 1 last. After that, Judge Chávez Tamariz considered that the measure was proportional, appropriate and necessary given the danger that both Vladimir Cerron like his mother disposed of or disappeared said amounts in his accounts, undoing the possibility of a definitive confiscation in favor of the State.

Vladimir Cerrón and his mother Bertha Rojas are under investigation by the Money Laundering Prosecutor’s Office. Photo: diffusion

In the case of Cerrón, the expertise that showed a patrimonial imbalance in its accounts from 2002 to 2018 was valued. The investigated, assure the Prosecutor’s Office and the expert reports, could not demonstrate whether he really received payments of more than S / 15 thousand between 2008 and 2010 for classes taught in a Central National University.

On the contrary, contradictions were evident in his version that he would have also received receipts for fees for the performance of his profession as a doctor in 2021.

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Witnesses have stated that they did not pay for these services, says the judge’s ruling. One of his transactions carried out in 2017, on the other hand, for S / 260,000, was identified as suspicious because it did not fit with the affidavits that he had presented then before the Comptroller General of the Republic.

Nor has the BBVA de Cerrón account in dollars been able to adequately prove its origin, highlights the Public ministry. In relation to Bertha Rojas, the acquisitions of real estate in Junín and Lima are taken as elements to seize her accounts. as well as transfers for the payment of civil damages imposed on his son Vladimir Cerron in 2019 for a sentence that was handed down for incompatible negotiation.

Despite the fact that the freezing of its funds is still in force due to the FIU (Financial Intelligence Unit), Judge Chávez Tamariz determined that the constant activity and transfers between their accounts was reason enough to dictate the measure. For all these reasons, it was concluded that “there are many suspicious operations and inconsistencies that do not match reality” in the accounts of those investigated.

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The main hypothesis that drives the prosecution in this case is that Free Peru was used to receive illicit money generated by the criminal network “Los Dinámicos del Centro” (dedicated in Junín to the traffic of driver’s licenses and exchange of favors in its General Directorate of Transport and Communications during the management of Vladimir Cerron).

This in order that said amounts be used for “the payment of various services, own expenses and investments as a plan of political activities and thereby give it the appearance of legality”.

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The final report of the constitutional complaint against President Pedro Castillo, who sent Wilson Soto (AP) to the president of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations (SAC), Rosio Torres recommends charging him and punishing him for treason against the country

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“We propose that the sanction of disqualification for five years be imposed for the exercise of public function,” reads the document.

It also refers to the declarations of Castle to CNN. “In his capacity as head of state, he stated that he would ask the Peruvians about Bolivia’s exit to the sea, which does not embody the desire of the nation, without taking into account that the territory is inalienable and inviolable (…) putting at risk the integrity and territorial sovereignty of the Condition, despite being obliged to protect it and make it respect”, he indicates.

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