The prosecutor of the interim nation, Tomás Gálvezdecided to take prosecutors Hernán Mendoza and Luis Ballón from the investigations related to the Minister of Justice, Juan José Santiváñez, and the President of the Republic, Dina Boluarte. The decision was formalized through the publication in the newspaper El Peruano and is part of the procedure changes after the departure of Delia Espinoza of the Prosecutor’s Office. Both were trusted prosecutors assigned to Espinoza’s office.
Mendoza and Ballón had participation in cases such as ‘Devil’, ‘Culebra’ and ‘Rolex’. Mendoza led the raid of Dina Boluarte’s house, where the rolex card was found, while Ballón supported the request for an impediment to departure from the country against Santiváñez last March in the framework of the investigations of the ‘Devil’ case. To them are added other prosecutors who were withdrawn from corruption and organized crime files.
The disposition is a return to the positions of origin, more than a punishment or sanction. Hernán Mendoza was reassigned to the special team Lava Jato. Instead, Luis Ballón was waiting for a new designation. The movement adds to other relays that have been given in corruption and organized crime files.
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Tomás Gálvez: Hernán Mendoza supported the suspension of 36 months against him
Last May, prosecutor Hernán Mendoza was the one who sustained before the supreme judge Juan Carlos Checkley the suspension for 36 months against Tomás Gálvez. The request indicated that the then magistrate was involved in an alleged criminal organization that sought to control key institutions of the electoral system and justice.
During that audience, Mendoza explained that Gálvez would have favored the party of José Luna Gálvez through coordination with ex -women of the deactivated National Council of the Magistracy. According to his allegation, the actions of the Supreme Prosecutor were not isolated, but part of a gear to ensure power quotas in the ONPE and the Public Ministry itself.
The published resolution charges special meaning because it is Gálvez himself who has the transfer of Mendoza. While he is departed from the cases touched by Minister Santiváñez and President Boluarte, a new destination is assigned: the special team Lava Jato, where the superior prosecutor Rafael Vela must support in the most relevant corruption processes of the country.
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Other prosecutors were also separated from their positions
The resolution not only reached Hernán Mendoza and Luis Ballón. He also ordered changes in four provisional supreme attorney prosecutors, who were withdrawn from key and reallocated offices to their places of origin. The measure was presented as an administrative reorganization.
By being out of those files, investigations must go to new responsible, which could generate delays in proceedings and a rearrangement in the fiscal strategy.
Tomás Gálvez: Promise continuity to separate prosecutors
On September 24, Tomás Gálvez said that the Public Ministry would keep investigations against Nicanor Boluarte and the minister Juan José Santiváñez. He said that these files would not be detained or dilated, and that the institution had to guarantee odd results.
“Why would they have to interrupt? They are already initiated. They must necessarily continue. I have always given guarantees of objectivity in my work. Moreover, in one’s ownFamily ProsecutorI have several cases that involve congressmen andNational Justice Board. These investigations continue, they don’t have to stop, “he said successful.
The departure of the prosecutors Mendoza and Ballónhowever, reads as a movement opposite to that speech. Both had direct participation in relevant proceedings on Santiváñez and about President Boluarte herself. The contrast between what was announced and the executed feeds doubts about the consistency of its management.
