He Judiciary ordered the definitive archive of the investigation carried out against the congressman Guido Bellido Ugarte for the alleged crime of affiliation to a terrorist organization.
The decision, adopted by the Third National Criminal Appeals Chamber, revoked a resolution from August 2025 that had initially rejected the defense’s request (to archive the case). With this new ruling, the court declared the exception founded, considering that the facts alleged by the Public Ministry do not constitute a crime.
The case focused on the prosecutor’s accusation that accused Bellido of having received storage devices (USB) and emails with ideological content related to Marxism and terrorist organizations, delivered by Bobby Eddy Villarroel Medina, better known as ‘Sacha’.
According to the members of the court, it was proven that Bellido did not participate in planning meetings with terrorist leaders such as Víctor Quispe Palomino. Also, after receiving the devices, no evidence was found that the congressman had carried out support, militancy or following orders from the organization and finally, the court warned that sanctioning a person for possessing ideological content “criminalizes not only freedom of thought and politics, but also the right to freedom of expression.”
The court clarified that, although membership is a crime of “abstract danger”, it requires concrete acts that demonstrate the will to belong and submit to the plans of an organization, and not a mere ideological coincidence.
Since the case is in the accusation stage, the Chamber determined that the Prosecutor’s Office no longer has room to incorporate new facts or investigations, so the closure of the process is imminent and definitive.
“Criminal law is about the act and not about the author. It does not follow from the mere act of receiving a device with ideological information that the agent has joined the organization,” the court document reads.
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