The Judiciary confirmed this Thursday, August 11, that the sentence against the congressman Wilmar Elera (Somos Peru) for the crime of aggravated collusion is six years of effective imprisonment.
This means that the parliamentarian must serve a sentence in a penitentiary center for the acts committed before he took office within the Legislative Branch.
Judge Ronald Soto Cortez ordered the location, capture and internment in a prison to enforce the resolution that he read this Thursday.
On Tuesday, August 2, the Judiciary announced the advance of the ruling against Elera García in which the then third vice president of the Legislative Power was sentenced for the crime of aggravated collusion.
The Seventh Unipersonal Criminal Court Specialized in Crimes of Corruption of Officials of Piura issued the sentence for the crime imputed to him as supervisor of the work “Improvement and Expansion of the Potable Water and Sewage System of Pacaipampa – Ayabaca” in 2012.
Wilmar Elera, together with others involved in the process (construction inspector, Wilder Alexander Mogollón and contractor José Luis Cortegana Sánchez), must jointly pay civil damages amounting to S/ 100 thousand.
The crime of aggravated collusion, typified in article 384 of the Penal Code, was committed due to irregularities during the implementation of the work valued at S/ 3,612,717.68 that led to its stoppage and subsequent compensation that the municipality of said jurisdiction had to pay to favor of the contractor for more than one million soles.
Wilmar Elera resigns from the Board of Directors
Congressman Wilmar Elera García resigned from the third vice presidency of the board of directors of the Congress of the Republic after knowing the advance of the ruling that sentenced him to six years in prison.
“The aforementioned act of resignation is one of responsibility in the face of the public fact on the date, of a sentence of the Judicial Power that affects my constitutional rights, and with which I categorically do not agree, nor do I accept, and in exercise of my right to the plurality of instance provided for in article 139, paragraph 6 of the Political Constitution of Peru, I will be challenging at the appropriate time”explained the parliamentarian in the official letter that he sent to the president of Parliament, Lady Camones.
