The prisoners of Ancón I prison, where there are no public telephones due to the high level of danger, have access to high-speed internet to continue running their criminal extortion gangs.
This was revealed in a report by Cuarto Poder, after an audio was leaked in which one of the convicts identified as John Zafra Espinoza He complained about the lack of service in some pavilions.
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This was revealed after a search of the prison, in which Zagra was found to have a diary of his extortion victims. The businessman Javier was one of these victims, who was being demanded to pay 10 thousand soles so as not to threaten his life.
The notebook also contained the numbers of companies, clinics, churches, construction companies and even the orchestra Armonía 10. In total, up to 100 companies that Zafra called to extort money.
The Prosecutor’s Office investigated that access to the high-speed network has been available for 3 years in the Ancón I prison and that workers from the prison are involved. National Penitentiary Institute (INPE).
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One of the suspects in this mafia is the Engineer Juan Huaringawho charged families or prisoners for having unrestricted connection. Deposits that were made most of the time to the engineer’s son.
He was in charge of dismantling towers and antennas corresponding to the radio link system of the INPE headquarters.
Prosecutors found that he communicated more than 20 times from July 2023 to March 2024 with the engineer Glen Lazaro Guzmanwho, according to his professional profile, works as coordinator of information technology services at INPE.
Calls were also found between Juan Huaringa and Luis Perez Adriano, who works in the Networks and Telecommunications Area at the INPE headquarters.