Odebrecht Case: Prosecutor's Office presents accusation against Gonzalo Monteverde for alleged money laundering

He Lava Jato Special Teamthrough the prosecutor Jose Domingo Perezpresented the accusation against the businessman Gonzalo Monteverde and his wife Maria Carmona Bernasconi in the framework of the investigations into the case Odebrecht for the alleged crime of money laundering as part of an alleged criminal organization. In that sense, the Public Ministry requested 33 years of imprisonment against Monteverde and Carmona.

The accusation also includes four other people such as Sara Andrade, Karla Ganoza and others, as well as 21 legal entities, including Construmaq SAC, Inversiones El Santuario SAC, Isagon SAC, with sentences ranging between 12 and 33 years.

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Statement from the Prosecutor’s Office about Gonzalo Monteverde

Monteverde Bussalleu is accused of being part of an alleged international criminal organization headed by Odebrechtwhose objective was to bribe politicians and public officials to secure contracts with the State. For this reason, he is designated as the financial operator of this company in Peru.

According to the tax thesis, Monteverde, through its companies, would have been the generator of illicit money flows for the Structured Operations Department (Cash 2) of the Brazilian construction company and the petty cash in Peru.

Gonzalo Monteverde and his wife are fugitives from justice

An arrest warrant has been issued for the accused husbands Gonzalo Monteverde and María Isabel Carmona, both nationally and internationally, since March 2019, as they are fugitives from justice.

That year, the Third National Court for Preparatory Corruption Investigation issued 36 months of preventive detention against him for his alleged participation in the Lava Jato case.

Due to his escape, in September of last year, the Ministry of the Interior, through its Rewards Program, offers a financial benefit of S/500,000 for information that leads to the location of the businessman Monteverde, identified as the financial operator of the illicit payments of the Brazilian company Odebrecht in Peru.