Judge Jorge Chávez Tamariz, head of the Seventh National Preparatory Investigation Court of the Supreme Court, issued a 12-month impediment to leave the country against the former president Peter Paul Kuczynski (PPK), in the case of the alleged acts of corruption linked to the Peru-Brazil IIRSA Sur Interoceanic Highway Project.
“[Declarar] founded the requirement of the representative of the Public Ministry (…) I impose the procedural coercive measure of impediment to leave the country for a period of 12 months”, reads the document accessed by RPP.
In addition, Judge Chávez Tamariz applied the same measure to former ministers René Cornejo Días and José Javier Ortíz Rivera. The three investigated are accused of committing the alleged crime of unfair collusion to the detriment of the State.
In this way, the Judiciary accepted in part the request of the prosecutor José Domingo Pérez, a member of the Lava Jato Special Team, and who requested to issue a 36-month ban on leaving the country.
According to the prosecution, PPK, in his capacity as head of the Board of Directors of Proinversión, when he held the position of Minister of Economy and Finance, would have “allegedly defrauded the State by agreeing with the representatives of the company Odebrecht and associates, as well as public officials to favor it in the process of granting the Peru-Brazil IIRSA SUR Interoceanic Road Corridor Project, sections 2 and 3, causing patrimonial damage to the State, being that from the development of the exposed facts we find the following irregularities noticed as indications of agreement”.
Currently, the former head of government (2016 – 2018) has been serving a house arrest order in the midst of his investigation into the Westfield Capital case, also related to payments by the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.
