A total of four properties, valued at S/ 2,853,951.67, linked to the leadership of Sendero Luminoso were recovered by the Third Provincial Prosecutor’s Office for Domain Forfeiture of Lima, after winning a lawsuit over said assets.
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One of the properties is located in San Martín de Porres, while the remaining three are in Ventanilla. In their entirety they will become property of the State, in strict compliance with the property forfeiture process.
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According to the investigation led by prosecutor Cecilia Pérez Breña, the Ventanilla properties “were acquired by José Villanueva, who was convicted of crimes of terrorism and money laundering, after receiving money from the convicted Florindo Flores Hala (‘Artemio’), which was introduced into the financial system, under the appearance of legality, through the acquisition of assets,” reports the Prosecutor’s Office.
Regarding the building located in San Martín de Porres, the institution specifies that it was transferred by Hermelinda Salvador, “convicted of the crime of money laundering from illicit drug trafficking, in favor of her son Jordán Poma, through an inheritance advance.”
“This case demonstrates the useful effect of international treaties, such as the Palermo Convention and the Vienna Convention, which ensure that those who participated in illicit acts, such as terrorism and drug trafficking, do not continue to benefit from assets acquired as a result of crime,” reads the statement from the Prosecutor’s Office.
For his part, the national coordinator of the Prosecutor’s Offices Specialized in Asset Forfeiture, Raúl Peña Cabrera Freyre, stated that he will be waiting to ensure that, if there is no appeal, the sentence remains final.
Last August, the Prosecutor’s Office warned that other asset forfeiture processes linked to assets of narcoterrorism networks (including Sendero Luminoso) could be affected or archived by recent decisions of the Constitutional Court and reforms to the regulations, which includes assets that have not yet been definitively transferred to the State.
At that time, the supreme deputy prosecutor Mirko Cano Gamero, national coordinator of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Offices for Asset Forfeiture, pointed out in a press conference held this Tuesday that the recent ruling of the Constitutional Court on the Asset Forfeiture Law impacts more than 700 processes in Lima alone, after in June of that same year, the TC declared the unconstitutionality claim presented by the ombudsman Josué Gutiérrez against the aforementioned norm partially founded.
