About to complete nine months of imprisonment, the former president Ollanta Humala Tasso He spoke out on social networks and asked for his immediate freedom. Through a message dictated by telephone, the former president questioned his stay in prison after the recent filing of the Cocteles case for money laundering against Keiko Fujimori, arguing that both processes are based on facts that today the justice system has determined do not constitute a crime.
Humala Tasso pointed out that there is a contradiction in the judicial system, since the Judiciary has already definitively dismissed the case of campaign contributions in favor of the leader of Fuerza Popular.
“On January 15, I will serve 9 months in prison for an act that today the Constitutional Court and the Judiciary have indicated is not a crime. Why am I in prison if we did not commit any crime?” questioned the former president.
Furthermore, he described his sentence as “prevaricatory” and denounced that his family has been forced into exile after 10 years of judicial persecution.
“Given this, I demand my freedom, equality before the law and the cessation of judicial harassment against me and my family for being nationalists,” Humala said.
In this regard, criminal lawyer César Nakazaki indicated that the Nationalist Party case should be closed immediately. According to the lawyer, both the Constitutional Court (TC) and the Supreme Court have established mandatory precedents that indicate that electoral donations (especially those from 2006 and 2011) are not money laundering.
“Today it is imperative that Ollanta Humala’s case ends. He becomes an arbitrary detainee because they keep him imprisoned for acts that the TC has said are not a crime,” said Nakazaki in an interview with Canal N. The lawyer emphasized that the prosecution made a strategic error by not differentiating between bribes (which are a crime) and electoral donations.
For Nakazaki, this scenario represents the end of a fiscal thesis that sought to criminalize the financing of political parties for years. “What we are not going to be able to rebuild is the destruction of the political party system due to tax persecution for something that was not a crime,” he said.
Ollanta Humala’s lawyer points out that receiving money for campaigns “is not a crime”
Edinson Huamán, Ollanta Humala’s lawyer, pointed out that the figure charged with money laundering accused of Keiko Fujimori is similar to that of the former president. According to him, the fact of receiving money for electoral campaigns “is not a crime.”
“Regardless of the legal qualification that the Public Ministry may give it, whether it is conversion, concealment, transfer. But the point, the genesis, the starting point is the simple fact that they accuse me of receiving money for a political campaign. That is not a crime,” he declared in Ampliación de Noticias.
In addition, the lawyer said that the contributions that Humala Tasso received were a “donation.” “The Prosecutor’s Office committed an abuse by charging an act that is not a crime,” he added.
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