The prosecutor Rafael Vela Beardcoordinator of the Lava Jato special team, warned that the suspension of cooperation with the Brazilian Public Ministry at the request of Odebrecht It occurs at a time when the Supreme Court is about to make a decision that would affect many cases, including those involving Pedro Castillo.
In statements to Success from Brazil, the prosecutor pointed out that Odebrecht’s request to suspend cooperation with Peru occurs now because there are several factors, such as Lula da Silva’s victory in the Brazilian elections and the appeal linked to the Ollanta Humala case. and Nadine Heredia, a process by which they have requested that Supreme Judge César San Martín be inhibited.
This cassation, Vela warned, intends to say that all the money contributed by Odebrecht in the political campaigns of Humala, Keiko Fujimori and others was not money laundering or a crime before 2019.
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“That has connotation with many other cases that are within the same level of controversy. The Fujimori case is a case embraced with the Humala case, but there is also the Susana Villarán case”, he recalled.
“There are many interests involved that are transferred to cases today, the case of Mr. Vladimir Cerrón, even what could eventually be the financing of the second round campaign of Mr. President Pedro Castillo. All of those connotations have to do with what the Supreme Court decides.”he added.
The coordinator of the special team stated that, for the Public Ministry, it is absolutely clear that there was a crime of money laundering even before 2019 with all the collection of clandestine money eluding control systems and through the ‘smurf’ to incorporate illicit payments into assets. candidate personals.
Rafael Vela highlighted, for this reason, the importance of César San Martín withdrawing from the process as they have institutionally demanded, so that there is no doubt about “such a transcendent decision” and that it is not undermined at the level of its legitimacy. before the population.
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Also, he considered that Odebrecht is making a complaint about the attitude of the Peruvian prosecutor’s office for incidents that would have occurred months ago only because the situation in Peru and Brazil has changed, due to the victory of Lula da Silva and the possibility that the criminal prosecution of the payments made by Odebrecht from box 2.
“The circumstances and the situation in which we find ourselves have changed, probably with factors such as the political situation in Brazil, the noise that exists regarding the cassation of Mr. Humala Tasso, the claims in the prosecutionSailing insisted.
