The Office of Control of the Magistracy (OCMA) opened a disciplinary process against two of the three superior judges investigated for the alleged collection of bribes during the government of the former president Pedro Castillo to revoke the preventive detention of his nephews Gianmarco Castillo and Fray Vásquez.
Sources of Peru21 They indicated that the body of the Judiciary “considers that there is merit to open disciplinary proceedings” against Bonifacio Meneses Gonzales and Sonia Bazalar Manrique.
Both superior judges that are part of the Second Chamber of Appeals of the Superior Court of Justice of Lima ordered with their votes to vary the order of 36 months of preventive detention of Gian Marco Castillo Gómez, nephew of the former head of State, by a measure of appearance with restrictions.
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For his part, the third magistrate member of the chamber, César Vásquez Arana, voted against, considering that the restrictive measure should be ratified but reduced to 24 months.
As recalled, it was this same room that ordered that the preventive detention order be reduced from 36 to 24 months for Fray Vásquez Castillo –who is also the nephew of the head of state and cousin of Castillo Gómez–, the former secretary of the presidential office Bruno Pacheco, businessmen Zamir Villaverde and Luis Pasapera Adrianzén, and former Provías officials Víctor Valdivia Malpartida and Edgar Vargas Mas, all of them investigated for the “Puente Tarata III Case”.
THE DELIVERY OF THE BRIBERY
According to the former adviser to the Ministry of Housing and now an effective collaborator Salatiel Marrufo, Castillo requested S/1.5 million through the former head of Housing Geiner Alvarado “to make payments to the members of the upper room, who were going to resolve the appeal of preventive detention of his nephews.”
The payment would have been made with the help of S/500,000 delivered to Marrufo by the businesswoman Sada Goray, owner of MarkaGroup, who was making payments in parts to win bids at the Ministry of Housing.
The delivery of money was made through Cledín Vásquez Castillo, brother of the investigated Fray Vásquez, according to the statement made by Marrufo to the Prosecutor’s Office.
The disciplinary procedure against Meneses and Bazalar is in charge of the Investigation and Anti-Corruption Unit (UIA) headed by the superior judge Elizabeth Quispe Mamami.
