The Third Criminal Chamber of Appeals of the National Superior Court declared the challenge made by the former Prime Minister unfounded Cesar Villanueva against the head of the Seventh National Preparatory Investigation Court, Jorge Chávez Tamariz, in the framework of the Odebrecht case.
The former head of the Ministerial Cabinet alleged that Chávez Tamariz advanced an opinion on facts that are attributed to the former official at the time of resolving an appeal for the inadmissibility of the action that he presented.
However, said instance determined that there is no cause founded on serious reasons that cast doubt on the impartiality of the judge, since “There is not the slightest suspicion or fear of partiality that would allow us to conclude on the estimation of the challenge”.
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Consequently, the referee ordered that the criminal process be continued in accordance with the law. It should be noted that Villanueva Arevalo is being investigated for the alleged crimes of collusion and others, to the detriment of the Peruvian State.
According to the tax thesis, Cesar Villanueva would have favored the Brazilian company Odebrecht in the San José de Sisa highway concession, when he served as regional governor of San Martín.
The former prime minister is also prosecuted for the alleged crime of influence peddling and illegal sponsorship for having tried to influence the Special Team of the Public Ministry that is investigating him for the Odebrecht casein order to favor it.
According to the investigations, the former head of the PCM would have contacted the superior prosecutor Alberto Rossell Alvarado and the provincial deputy prosecutor Ronald Chafloque Chávez, through the citizen José María Santiesteban Zurita, to help him in the judicial process.
