While the press spotlight was focused on the case of Andrés Hurtado Grados, Chibolín, the members of the Siucho Neira clan have taken advantage of their friend’s misfortune to try to escape very serious cases of money laundering originating from the export of gold. of illegal origin. Since before the television presenter’s media circus exploded, the Siucho Neiras have been subjected to five tax investigations that most likely lead to arrest requests. To try to avoid this, Iván Siucho Neira, who has the status of leader, submitted to effective collaboration. It’s a great play.
The Los Waykis en la Sombra case suited the members of the Siucho Neira clan like a glove, when one of the detainees turned out to be the lawyer Mateo Castañeda Segovia, defender of Nicanor Boluarte Zegarra and his sister, President Dina Boluarte Zegarra, as well as Iván Siucho Neira. At that time, Castañeda was defending Iván Siucho against the accusation against the family company, Quántico Servicios Integrados, of having exported gold from concessions in Piura that never existed. Iván Siucho requested to benefit from effective collaboration and exposed Castañeda for attempting to falsely declare money of suspicious origin as his. But that wasn’t all.
Shortly after his cousin Gian Carlo Miu Lei pointed him out in the Sunday newspaper ‘Contracorriente’ as the leader of a criminal organization dedicated to the illegal export of gold, Iván Siucho Neira accepted the sincere confession and accused his cousin Augusto Miu Lei of having paid the money laundering prosecutor, Elizabeth Peralta, through Chibolín, to deactivate an investigation against him.
Added to these events was the alleged kidnapping that Iván Siucho Neira denounced “so that he would not continue speakingâ€� as an effective collaborator. In this way, Iván Siucho Neira put a sector of the Prosecutor’s Office on his side, and achieved a certain “protected” status. They even allowed him to travel abroad. A convenient complaint Evidence that Iván Siucho Neira enjoys the status of “untouchable” is that the accusations of his cousin Gian Carlo Miu Lei have not been taken into account, such as the exchange of weapons for gold with criminal organizations Ecuadorians, or sexual abuse to the detriment of minors. For the Prosecutor’s Office, only what Iván Siucho Neira says matters.
Empowered by the effective collaboration of Iván Siucho Neira, the members of the clan, aware that the formalization of an accusation is underway, have requested the exclusion of the money laundering prosecutor, Lizardo Pantoja Domínguez, who is investigating them for the money laundering derived from the export of illegal gold.
On October 14 of this year, the lawyer of the Siucho Neira brothers, Claudio Iturrizaga Castro, filed a complaint with the Prosecutor of the First National Superior Prosecutor’s Office Specialized for Money Laundering Crimes, Marcos Villalta Infante, in which he requires that prosecutor Lizardo Pantoja and his deputy, prosecutor Gustavo Gutiérrez Mitma, be removed. This is the new move of the Siucho Neira clan.
Accusing the lodge
The argument of the Siucho Neira defense is that prosecutor Lizardo Pantoja has supposedly not been able to “build” or sustain the case since December 2022, despite having extended the deadline three times. Incredibly, the alleged “partiality” of the deputy prosecutor Gustavo Gutiérrez Mitma is also mentioned as an argument, because he would be part of the “same Masonic lodge to which Mateo Castañeda belongs”, the former defender of Iván Siucho.
Sources from the Public Ministry explained to La Republica that the request from the defense of the Siucho clan has the sole purpose of delaying the investigation for money laundering and thus avoiding a prison sentence for the export of gold of illegal origin.
The case that worries the Siucho Neira clan, and which is in the hands of prosecutors Pantoja and Gutiérrez, of the First Corporate Supraprovincial Prosecutor’s Office Specialized in Money Laundering Crimes, originated in 2022 when Sunat immobilized 14 kilos of gold to the company Tera Trade SAC, whose ownership is attributed to the Siucho Neira.
As they could not prove the legal origin of the precious metal, prosecutor Pantoja seized the shipment and opened an investigation against Iván, Jaime, Roberto and Martin Siucho Neira, and their father, Francisco Siucho Ípac. The firm Quántico Servicios Integrados, from the Siucho family, was also incorporated, because according to the prosecutor it financed the purchase of the 14 kilos of gold in the name of Tera Trade SAC.
What is striking is that the Siucho Neiras’ complaint, which seeks to take the case away from prosecutors Pantoja and Gutiérrez, is that it has been quickly accepted by the head of the First National Superior Prosecutor’s Office Specialized for Money Laundering Crimes, Marcos Villalta Infante . During the raid on the home of money laundering prosecutor Elizabet Peralta Santur, as part of the case against Andrés Hurtado, Chibolín, the authorities found evidence that affects prosecutor Marcos Villalta.
Elizabeth Peralta kept a USB in her home in which there were audio files of conversations that suggest that both Peralta and Villalta received “helpâ€� during the exams of the National Council of the Judiciary (CNM) to be appointed senior prosecutors. By coincidence, the former president of the CNM Guido Aguila Grados appointed Elizabeth Peralta and Marcos Villalta as senior prosecutors, on February 23, 2016. Aguila is one of the main people investigated in the Los Cuellos Blancos del Puerto case. By the way, Peralta has also been under investigation since 2022 for her telephone conversations with former Supreme Judge César Hinostroza Pariachi, identified as one of the leaders of the same organization.
It will depend on the senior prosecutor Marcos Villalta whether he accepts the complaint from the Siucho Neira clan, who intends to entrust the Tera Trade case to another prosecutor and in this way delay a possible arrest request.
As indicated, the Siucho Neira clan faces four tax investigations for the alleged export of gold of illegal origin. Apart from the aforementioned file of the company Tera Trade SAC, prosecutor Lizardo is also in charge of three others:
-On May 23, Pantoja opened an investigation against Francisco Siucho Ópac and his four children for the export of gold of illegal origin destined for India and Dubai, using false temporary permits from the Regional Directorate of Energy and Mines of Piura and from Sunat.
-On October 31, 2023, the Los Olivos Criminal Investigation Division intervened on the brothers Jaime and Martín Siucho Neira for transporting three gold bars, as well as weapons. The Lima Norte Prosecutor’s Office was investigating the case, but in September of this year it was transferred to the office of prosecutor Pantoja.
-In November 2023, Sunat detected several suspicious exports from the company Tera Trade SAC, linked to Iván Siucho. This case is different from the seizure of the 14 kilos already mentioned. The file was assigned to prosecutor Roger Tumi Pacori, but was later taken over by prosecutor Lizardo Pantoja. There is a fifth case, but it is being heard by another prosecutor:
On September 5, 2022, Javier Miu Lei reported Iván Siucho Neira and the company Quántico Servicios Integrados for money laundering, upon discovering that his cousin was exporting gold abroad improperly using the La War War mining concession document. located in Suyo, Piura. The problem arose when Sunat began to demand that Javier Miu Lei account for million-dollar gold exports. When reviewing the documentation, Miu Lei detected that her cousin had reported that the mineral came from the La War War concession.
But it turned out that said mine had never started work, a milligram of gold had never left that place. As if that were not enough, the Siucho Neira do not even pay taxes on exports. As of today, according to Sunat, they have a coercive debt of S/38.2 million.
Marco Villalta under investigation
â—� The Supreme Prosecutor’s Office for Internal Control of the Public Ministry is investigating senior prosecutor Marcos Villalta because in a recording of conversations between President Martín Vizcarra’s former advisor Karen Roca with Richard Swing he is mentioned as a “corrupt prosecutor.”
â—� Villalta is also being investigated by the National Board of Justice (JNJ), for his alleged irregular promotion as senior money laundering prosecutor, after an effective collaborator of ‘Los Cuellos Blancos’ linked him to the National Council of the Judiciary (CNM).
