A report from the Cuarto Poder program showed a series of documents that would link the new Minister of Agrarian Development and Irrigation, Javier Arce Alvarado, with serious legal issues. In one of them it is detailed that the official would have the status of a free prisoner.
The Sunday newspaper reported that the also Andean parliamentarian would have this condition in the Ninth Liquidating Criminal Court of Lima for the alleged commission of the crime of generic fraud.
The penalist Romy Chang explained that being a free prisoner means that the process has been initiated against a person with a restriction measure, which is a measure of appearance, which does not imply preventive detention.
In addition to this, a record to which said program had access indicated that In 1997, a Northern Cone Court sent the new member of the cabinet to the San Jorge Prison for the alleged crime of usurpation.
Likewise, the 20 complaints that exist against Arce at the fiscal level in the offices of Ventanilla, Huaura, Lima Norte, Callao and Arequipa were reported. Five of them are on file and others are pending or formalized for crimes such as illicit association, forgery, fraud, document forgery, concussion, usurpation of functions, aggravated theft and crimes against public faith.
Communication with Pedro Castillo
Fourth Power also revealed some of the communications that the head of the Ministry of Agricultural Development and Irrigation with the president of the Republic, Pedro Castillo.
One of them was on June 6, at 4:58 pm, when Javier Arce called the president after the electoral flash of the second round, which placed him behind Keiko Fujimori. However, the head of state did not answer and then responded with: “Hello my brother”.
The program assured that the communication between the two was recurrent after that, which could have paved the way for Arce to assume this important role within the Executive, despite his inexperience in the sector.
