The Judiciary issued 36 months of preventive detention against the former supernumerary judge Williams Zavala Matawho is being investigated for the crime of influence peddling, specific passive bribery and criminal organization in the case The White Necks of the Port.
Prosecutor Víctor Túllume indicated that among the accusations against Zavala Mata are having instigated former magistrate Walter Ríos to invoke influences before officials of the deactivated National Council of the Magistrature (CNM) in order to be appointed senior judge “in exchange for the delivery of gifts and mortgage of wills” and “being at the service” of the criminal network.
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In addition, another fact accused of Zavala is having favored the soccer player Josimar Atoche with a judicial resolution of rehabilitation, ordering the annulment of records and filing the records.
This fact would have had as intermediaries Gianfranco Paredes, advisor to Ríos Montalvo, and Ysrael Espilco, former supernumerary judge; charging the crime of specific passive bribery.
Likewise, he is accused of having resolved the habeas corpus lawsuit against the superior judges of the National Criminal Chamber, which was filed by the lawyer of the sentenced Rafid Jaboo, within the framework of a conviction for illicit drug trafficking in a criminal organization with Gerson Gálvez, alias ‘Caracol’.
Finally, the prosecution attributes to him having formed Los Necks Blancos del Puerto, having as a role –in his capacity as magistrate– the availability to act or proceed according to the interests of the organization and its alleged members.
