This last Monday was reported by the former congressman murder Óscar Medelius Rodríguezcontroversial character of politics in the last years of the 90s, being parliamentary for the New Majority-Change 90, led by former president Alberto Fujimori.
However, his name was marked by his participation in the massive falsification of signatures that allowed the Fujimorist leader to be reelected in 2000. Therefore, he was sentenced to eight years in prison.
The investigations indicated that he received up to 70 thousand dollars from Vladimiro Montesinos to carry out the operation, in which he hired people who worked close to his notary, located in Callao.
After the fall of the Fujimorist regime, he fled the Peruvian Justice in 2001. However, he was captured in 2006 in the United States and subsequently extradited to Peru, where he served his sentence.
It was in 2018 when he returned to the political scene in his participation in a meeting in the Government Palace, during the government of Martín Vizcarra, a meeting that had to be clarified by César Villanueva, then Premier, noting that he lasted 15 minutes being the role of Medelius The legal advisor of the citizen Lin Yun Yo, who was with whom Vizcarra had a work dialogue without reaching any agreement.
He also visited Government Palace in 2017, when Peru’s leader was first vice president of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. However, according to Villanueva, Vizcarra “did not participate, did not authorize, nor did he know about it.”
Medelius was also a lawyer for Gerson Aldair Gálvez Calle, known in the world of the sicariate as ‘Caracol’, leader of the Criminal Band Barrio King and sentenced to 35 years in prison for crimes such as drug trafficking and extortion.
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