For almost four hours, the coordinator of the Special Team of Prosecutors against the Corruption of Power, Marita Riveraheld the first working meeting with the colonels of the National Police assigned for investigation, search and intervention tasks.
In the meeting that took place in the office of prosecutor Barreto, the colonels received the tax folders of the priority cases, among others the investigations into the tender for the Tarata III Bridge, the promotions of the Armed Forces and the National Police, the meetings in the house on the street sarateathe acquisitions of Petroperú, meddling in the National Superintendence of Tax Administration (Sunat), the so-called “shadow cabinet” and the sister-in-law Yenifer Paredes Navarro.
Coordinator. Prosecutor Marita Barreto had the first meeting with the PNP special team. Photo: diffusion
In addition, they will participate in verification process of the information provided by the effective collaborators Zamir Villaverde García and Karelim López Arredondo and others. But are not the only ones. Sources of the Republic in the Public ministry They specified that there are other files, but for reasons of confidentiality they cannot be mentioned, although they indicated that they are related to government corruption.
The head of the Search Division of the General Intelligence Directorate (Digimin) participated in the first working meeting. from the Ministry of the Interior, Colonel PNP Harvey Colchado Huamaní; the head of the Intelligence Division of the Anti-Drug Directorate (Dirandro), Colonel PNP Walter Lozano Pajuelo; the head of the High Complexity Investigation Division (Diviac), PNP Colonel Franco Moreno Panta; and the head of the Search Division of the Intelligence Directorate (Dirin) of the National Police, Colonel PNP Luis Silva Collazos.
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High value targets
The four colonels were requested by the prosecutor Marita Barreto herself from former minister Mariano González, and this issued the respective resolution so that they are made available to the prosecution against the corruption of power.
Coordination of the special team of the National Police It will be in charge of Colonel PNP Harvey Colchado Huamaní, with extensive, outstanding and recognized experience. According to the sources consulted, the prosecutor Marita Barreto explained in detail the tasks that the colonels must fulfill and the specific objectives.
Barreto mentioned that They will carry out procedures that include the tax investigation processes, such as acts of corroboration, collection of evidence, and evidence and analysis studies of the fiscal files on acts of corruption at all levels.
“The acts of investigation imply actions of intelligence, observation and surveillance. Also verifications, target locations, source acquisition and search for effective potential collaborators. All the proceedings will be supervised by the prosecutors responsible for each folder,” the sources indicated.
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Regarding the request for 40 agents to support the special team of colonels, the sources indicated that they are necessary for the verification, corroboration and documentation of the facts and persons mentioned by witnesses and effective collaborators.
“For example, if the witness or collaborator affirms that he knows where and when the members of a criminal organization meet to materialize their illicit transactions, Whether it is a home or a restaurant, the agents must carry out observation, surveillance and monitoring tasks, to verify if the information is correct. And it also allows to follow the route of the money product of said transactions”, indicated the consulted sources.
This is not the first time that the Public Ministry has requested the support of a special team from the National Police. In addition, there are legal instruments that allow prosecutors to require specialized technical support from the police for highly dangerous complex cases.
“It is legal for the Public Ministry to request support from the National Police. This is how we work in the cases of Aerocontinente, Gerald Oropeza, the Orellana clan and others,” the sources recalled.
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“The special team has been in force for many years and is part of the investigation techniques. It is not that they are at the service of a Public Ministry or a prosecutor in particular. They are at the service of clarifying the truth, because the Prosecutor’s Office is not prepared to investigate. They only do the legal control and those who are prepared are those of the specialized police, ”said police sources with knowledge of the actions of the special teams.
“This team is not only focused on power, but also on people who are close to power and others who are committing acts of corruption to the detriment of the State,” they specified.
Hunter. Colonel Franco Moreno in the capture of Carlos Burgos. Photo: diffusion
“The team is not only trained to capture targets and targets, such as former officials Juan Silva and Bruno Pacheco, and the nephews of President Pedro Castillo. The entire National Police has the order to capture them, that’s why they are in the reward system. Even a police station can capture them,” the sources pointed out.
“When these teams merge, there is a small structure where responsibilities are delegated. All with the same horizon of clarifying the truth”, they pointed out.
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In recent months, the National Police has raided more than 15 buildings throughout the country, in order to locate and capture fugitives related to the Government of peter castle. Some interventions were the product of informative communications, others as a result of follow-ups. However, at the moment, there are still no results.
Efficiency profiles
On February 12, 2012, the terrorist leader of Alto Huallaga, Florindo Flores Hala, comrade Artemio, was captured by a combined group of the National Police and the Army. The now PNP Colonels Harvey Colchado Huamaní and Walter Lozano Pajuelo participated in the successful operation. Now both are part of the special police team called by prosecutor Marita Barreto. It was on this occasion that Colchado and Lozano met prosecutor Barreto.
Colonel Walter Lozano, a member of the Los Justicieros 1994 promotion, participated in the dismantling of the ‘Clan Orellana’ and the capture of the former mayor of Tocache David Bazán Arévalo, cousin of Miguel Arévalo Ramírez, ‘Eteco’, and drug trafficking organizations.
while the colonel Harvey Colchado, from the Los Amautas class of 1998, formed the High Complexity Research Division (Diviac), in order to disrupt networks of corruption and organized crime.
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under his direction, commanded several operations that led to the capture of important cadres of the militarized Communist Party of Peru (MPCP) of the Valley of the Apurimac, Ene and Mantaro rivers (Vraem).
Another of the officers who make up the special team is Colonel PNP Franco Moreno Panta, belonging to the Los Vencedores 1992 promotion, who, during his police career, was wounded twice when he was shot at by a gang of criminals who had become the terror of La Victoria, in 2009.
As an operational and investigative officer, Colonel Moreno participated in the dismantling of more than 50 criminal organizations dedicated to kidnapping, extortion, contract killings, illicit drug and land trafficking in Lima and Callao. One of them is Barrio King, headed by the bloodthirsty criminal Gerson Gálvez Calle (Caracol).
For his part, Colonel PNP Luis Silva Collazos, like Colonel Harvey Colchado, belongs to the Los Amautas 1998 promotion; In addition, Silva joined the Odessa group of the General Intelligence Directorate (Digimin) of the Ministry of the Interior in 2001, who was in charge of capturing Alberto Fujimori’s former presidential adviser, Vladimiro Montesinos.
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In 2017 and 2018, worked in the Diviac and participated in the dismantling of multiple criminal organizations dedicated to extortion, contract killings and land trafficking.
Experience. Colonel Luis Silva captured Montesinos. Photo: diffusion
Based on the experience and effectiveness of these officers, the prosecutor Marita Barreto asked the Ministry of the Interior to assign them to the Special Team of Prosecutors against the Corruption of Power.
Minister Huerta: “The complaint was archived”
The Minister of the Interior, Willy Huerta Olivas, stated that the tax investigation that began against him in 2013 was archived, but that continues to appear in the database of the Public Ministry, which is why three months ago he requested that it be deleted from the system.
“That fiscal investigation had a slanderous origin, that is why two prosecutors filed them. Allegations made by the same person were determined to be false. It’s been a long time, I don’t even remember the name of the complainant,” Minister Willy Huerta told La República.
According to the Public Ministry database, the case against Huerta would be found in the Second Provincial Criminal Prosecutor’s Office Specialized in Corruption Crimes of Officials, and he was being investigated for abuse of authority, concussion, collusion, among other alleged crimes.
Version. Minister Huerta says that the complaint was a slander. Photo: Antonio Melgarejo/The Republic
“I was being investigated for corruption of officials. I don’t remember the detail. With that complaint they tried to tarnish my honor, slander me, defame me However, the corresponding prosecution filed the case, and did so twice, because the same person made the same accusation in two prosecutions, ”he explained.
Minister Huerta promised to deliver the documentation that proves that the tax investigation against him was filed.
