The top prosecutor for money laundering Elizabeth Peralta Santurfriend of the television presenter Andrés Hurtado, Chibolín, Yes, he intervened in a case related to the brothers My Lei Siuchomaternal cousins of the Siucho Neira brothers.
According to Ana Siucho Neira’s version, when the police intervened in a shipment of gold belonging to the Miu Lei Siucho during an operation called ‘Los Topos del Frío’, they turned to the Siucho Neira to recover the precious metal. In turn, the Siucho Neira asked for the intervention of Chibolín, a friend of the prosecutor Elizabeth Peralta.
The Republic managed to document this episode and verified that, indeed, the prosecutor did have participation in the case involving the Miu Lei Siucho, cousins of the Siucho Neira. However, there are other data that are not correct.which will be seen later.
The case began on February 11, 2020, when 1,200 police officers and 47 prosecutors executed the operation ‘Los Topos del Frío’ simultaneously in Lima, Piura, Trujillo, Ica and Arequipa. The action of law enforcement against this criminal organization dedicated to illegal mining led to the arrest of eight Peruvian citizens and two Chinese citizens (Yu Hang Lui and Yan Ruzhong), in addition to the raid of eight companies that served as fronts.
He The operation was led by the head of the Fourth Specialized Corporate Prosecutor’s Office against Organized CrimeLucio Sal y Rosas, who in coordination with agents from the National Police’s Environmental Investigation Directorate managed to immobilize 120 kilos of gold in the airport warehouses of Callao.
According to sources related to the office of prosecutor Lucio Sal y Rosas, the illegal gold network was financed by Chinese citizens Yu Hang Lui and Yan Ruzhong. They transported the gold ore by truck to processing plants located in Lima, Piura, Ica and Arequipa, which would then be exported to Dubai, India, China, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
One of the companies intervened in the operation ‘Los Topos del Frío’ was Las Lomas Doradas, owned by Javier Miu Lei Siucho, cousin of the Siucho Neira brothers. On the day of the intervention, a shipment of 120 kilos was seizedvalued at US$10 million. Of that total, 40 kilos (US$3.33 million) belonged to the Miu Lei Siucho.
THE GOLD OF THE MIU LEI SIUCHO
The The seizure of the 120 kilos of gold was ordered by the head of the First National Permanent Preparatory Investigation Court of Organized Crime, Judge Richard Concepción Carhuancho.
At the same time, the National Police’s Environmental Investigation Directorate issued a report on the Los Topos del Frío case to the First Supraprovincial Corporate Prosecutor’s Office Specialized in Money Laundering Crimes, headed by Judge Luz Taquire Reynoso.
On February 18, 2021, the Directorate of Money Laundering Investigation (Dirila) submitted another report on ‘Los Topos del Frío’, a document that fell to the Second Provincial Prosecutor’s Office Specialized in Money Laundering Crimes, headed by Sonia Baylón Zavaleta. On September 10, 2021, prosecutor Baylón decided “not to open a preliminary investigation” and closed the case against the people accused of being part of the organization ‘Los Topos del Frío’, arguing that the same crime was being investigated in another prosecutor’s office.
However, the public prosecutor, Héctor Paz Solano, filed an appeal against the decision of prosecutor Sonia Baylón, because he considered that the corresponding investigations had not been carried out, among other legal proceedings.
PERALTA ENTERS THE SCENE
Meanwhile, on January 1, 2022, the legal representative of the Las Lomas Doradas mining company, owned by the Miu Lei Siucho brothers, requested the Organized Crime Prosecutor’s Office to return the 40 kilos of seized gold. The defense argued that during the investigations, the company was not found to have any connection with the illegal miners intervened during the ‘Los Topos del Frío’ operation.
Organized crime prosecutor Lucio Sal y Rosas agreed and ordered the return of the 40 kilos of gold to the company Las Lomas Doradas on February 18, 2021.
When the public prosecutor opposed the archiving of the case of ‘Los Topos del Frío’, in which the Miu Lei Siucho, cousins of the Siucho Neira, were involved, the case ended up in the hands of prosecutor Elizabeth Peralta.
It was on April 25, 2022 that Peralta rejected the appeal of prosecutor Héctor Paz and ratified the decision of his colleague Sonia Baylón to file the case and ordered that all the proceedings be sent to the office of prosecutor Luz Taquire, who is investigating ‘Los Topos del Frío’ to this day, according to the resolution of prosecutor Peralta to which La República had access.
Consequently, one year and two months before prosecutor Elizabeth Peralta confirmed the closing of the money laundering case involving the Miu Lei Siucho, prosecutor Lucio Sal y Rosas had returned the 40 kilos of gold that had been seized from the cousins of the Siucho Neira.
These facts differ from Ana Siucho Neira’s version of the alleged seizure of 100 kilos of gold from her cousins Miu Lei Siucho, and from the 200 kilos that prosecutor Peralta herself mentioned on the program ‘Contracorriente’. It was 40 kilos, according to the documents. And the return was made by prosecutor Lucio Sal y Rosas. Not Peralta.
On Friday, September 6 of this year, during an interview on the program ‘Beto a saber’, Ana Siucho Neira accused her cousin, businessman Javier Miu Lei, of having paid one million dollars to the television presenter Andrés Hurtado, Chibolín, to intercede with the prosecutor Elizabeth Peralta, her friend, in order to recover a load of 100 kilos of gold that had been seized. This case is now the subject of a fiscal investigation.
But the truth is that the Ana Siucho Neira’s statements against her cousins Miu Lei Suicho were made after On September 1st, Jean Carlo Miu Lei, in an interview with the program ‘Contracorriente’, made serious accusations against the Siucho Neira brothers as alleged members of a criminal organization dedicated to the purchase and sale of gold of illegal origin.
AND THE MILLION DOLLARS?
In reality, it is a confrontation without quarter between the Miu Lei Siucho and the Siucho Neira, which began when the former denounced their cousins for money laundering after discovering that they had registered with Sunat the export of gold that came from the concession called La War War, located in the district of Suyo, province of Ayabaca, in Piura. Not only was the gold concession not owned by the Siucho Neira family, but there were also no gold mining activities. The Siucho Neira exported gold of most likely illegal origin.
As reported last Sunday by La República, the Siucho Neiras face three cases of money laundering, which are now accumulated into one:
- In February 2022, the Money Laundering Investigation Directorate (Dirila) reported the Siucho Neira brothers as members of an organization dedicated to the illegal collection of gold and its export with forged documentation.
- In September 2022, the Miu Lei Siucho brothers denounced their cousins as money launderers of illegal gold.
- In October 2023, the police intervened with the Siucho Neira in Independencia with gold and weapons.
This means that before the Miu Lei Siucho filed the complaint against their cousins Siucho Neira, the Dirila had already fully identified them.
In this war of accusations between family members, Ana Siucho Neira assured that the Miu Lei Siucho paid US$1 million to Chibolín so that the prosecutor Elizabeth Peralta would return 100 kilos of gold to them. However, according to the fiscal and judicial documentation, in reality it was 40 kilos that the authorities seized from the Miu Lei in the operation ‘Los Topos del Frío’. And that amount was what the prosecutor Lucio Sal y Rosas gave them because they proved with documents that the origin of the precious metal was legal.
So, if as the court documents indicate, The gold was returned by order of the prosecutor Lucio Sal y Rosas, and not by Elizabeth PeraltaWhat did Andrés Hurtado, Chibolín, do with the US$1 million that he supposedly received to return the gold to the Miu Lei Siucho, thanks to the mediation of the Siucho Neira?
THE ORIGIN OF EVERYTHING
● In the operation ‘Los Topos del Frío’ the brothers Américo, Rosa and Jaime Trujillo Paz were arrested, as well as Clever Vega Chávez, Marlon Campos Acosta, Bárbara Quijano Argomedo, Salomir Matos Anampa, Edson Rosillo Carrillo. Also, the Chinese citizens Yu Hang and Yan Ruzhong.
● The companies under investigation are Las Lomas Doradas, Veta Dorada, Meta Segura, Ruta Dorada, Jingzhong Global Mining Company, Trans Nara, Transportes Global Cargo La Azulita and Titan del Peru.
