The details of the police operation in which Alan García decided to shoot himself in the head

Peruvian Interior Minister Carlos Moran on Wednesday defended the actions of the authorities during the arrest of former Peruvian President Alan García (2011-2016), who died in a hospital in Lima. after being shot in the head. that agents will take it.

Morán said that the arrest was ordered by Judge José Luis Chávez, the third national jurisdiction of preparatory investigation, At the request of the prosecutor against money laundering José Domingo Pérezwho is in charge of the investigation.

The minister, dismissing the allegations of irregularities in the operation, said the arrest was ongoing. Henry Amenábar and a group of agents who identified themselves before García and they informed him that he was going to be arrested. The dialogue took place while the officers were on the first floor of the house and the accused was in the staircase leading to the second floor.

"Mr. García Pérez, stating that he was going to call his lawyer, went into his room and closed the door. A few minutes later, a gun was fired. The police forced him into the room and found him sitting with a head injury.", detailed Morán.

The minister explained that the former president had been immediately transferred to Casimiro Ulloa Hospital, where a few hours later he had been confirmed that he had died as a result of an operation. surgical.

"The police intervention adhered to the established protocols, supported by diligence ordered by a judge in the framework of an iconic case such as Odebrecht.Moran commented.

On these points, the Minister of Interior wanted to respond to the statements of Alan García's secretary, Ricardo Pinedo, who had questioned the conduct of the prosecutor during the proceedings.

Pinedo said the prosecutor was not properly identified and that Garcia did not mean that it was an arrest, the former president has taken refuge in his room. For his part, a lawyer Garcia confirmed that the blow was self-inflicted.

The prosecutor's office has opened an investigation into García for allegedly receiving bribes from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht for the construction of Line 1 of the Lima Metro.

Prosecutors discovered that Garcia had held a conference in 2012 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, for which he had collected $ 100,000 from Odebrecht's hidden account, which earned him millions of dollars in bribes. wine in a dozen countries in Latin America.

They also discovered that the former secretary, Luis Nava and his son, José Nava Mendiola, and the former vice president of the state oil company Petroperú had received bribes from Odebrecht. .

The Odebrecht case is attributed in Peru to former presidents Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006), Alan García (2006-2011), Ollanta Humala (2011-2016) and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2016-2018) for the pots-de -vin paid by the construction company. between 2005 and 2014.

She also detains opposition leader Keiko Fujimori for improper donations by the company to election campaigns.