The Prosecutor’s Office against Organized Crime ruled that it was not appropriate to initiate preliminary proceedings and, consequently, filed the complaint filed by the Minister of the Interior, Juan Jose Santivañezagainst PNP Captain Junior Izquierdo “Culebra” for alleged criminal organization.
“Declare that it is not appropriate to initiate preliminary proceedings against Junior Augusto Izquierdo Yarlequé for the alleged commission of the crime against Public Tranquility-Criminal Organization to the detriment of the State”the resolution reads.
As is known, Santiváñez filed the criminal complaint for the alleged commission of the crime of criminal organization against ‘Culebra’, who revealed an audio in which the Minister of the Interior is heard saying, among other revelations, that the fugitive leader of Peru Libre was helped to escape from the Police by being transported in a presidential vehicle assigned to Dina Boluarte.
The complaint was based on the alleged participation of Izquierdo Yarlequé and others in crimes classified in article 317 of the Penal Code, which include criminal organization, attack on the integrity of computer data, slanderous denunciation, falsification of documents, fraud and generic falsehood. This is because the minister’s defense alleges that the audios would have been falsified.
CULEBRA’ ACCUSES PALACE
For his part, ‘Culebra’ confirmed the veracity of the content of the audio. In his statement, which lasted almost three hours and was held before the Interior Minister’s statement, he assured that he had provided the Oversight Commission with an expert report of the audio of the meeting with Santiváñez, and that he would corroborate that the recording was true.
He explained that he made the audio recording of the meeting with the minister without imagining the revelations that he was going to give, and he specified that he did it because he felt disappointed by him because before being appointed to that position, he had promised him that he would support Diviac, but in the end he did not do so, and tried to dissolve it – according to him – by order of the head of state.
According to ‘Culebra’, at the aforementioned meeting, the head of the Interior also assured that the cell phone of a person from Cerrón’s inner circle was intercepted, and that his whereabouts were known, and that he shared this information with four high-ranking officials from the Government Palace, and that after two hours, the aforementioned telephone device was deactivated because it had been alerted.
Izquierdo said that Santiváñez did not give the names of these officials, and only said that they were “big shots.”
The police officer also said that the minister said, in the meeting they had, that Cerrón was protected by eight Cuban soldiers, and that he was taken to Pisco in Dina Boluarte’s presidential vehicle.
Before the meeting ended, the commission approved summoning ‘Culebra’ for next Wednesday 11th to continue with the investigations.
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