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Attorney Vicente Silva Checa, 68, was "the shadow counsel" who allegedly made decisions to the leadership of the alleged criminal organization headed by Keiko Fujimori when she headed Fuerza 2011 (today). Fuerza Popular), with the aim of laundering the illicit money that Odebrecht would have given during the 2011 election campaign.
This was the accusation made Friday by the prosecutor José Domingo Pérez, of the special team in charge of the case Lava Jato, to support his request for 36 months of preventive detention for Silva Checa and ten others, including Keiko Fujimori .
"He participated in the decision-making and advice he had given from the moment he had received the money (Odebrecht and badtails), the coordination to convert through contributions (splitting and" smurf " ) and concealment, "said Perez during his closing speech on the third day
The first two days of the hearing, which was held Wednesday and Thursday, only the case of Keiko Fujimori was badyzed.
According to the prosecutor, the status of the Silva Checa party does not appear in the statutes. as part of the party structure; However, he said that he had power of decision in this area. That, says Perez, would show that the lawyer is the man who "stays in the shadows", applying practices related to Fujimori's former advisor, Vladimiro Montesinos. He recalled that Silva Checa had been sued for the sale of Cable News Channel in Montesinos. He claimed that he had not been sentenced, but because his case was prescribed.
The prosecutor also said that protected witnesses had identified Silva Checa as part of the core of the alleged criminal organization, "stating that the makers are Keiko [Fujimori]., Ana [Herz] Pier [Figari] and Vicente [Silva Checa]. "
Statements of witnesses concerning consultations with the organization, Pérez added, were corroborated by documents relating to the Lava Jato case and tax investigations. Keiko Fujimori seized during the search of the house of the lawyer. The prosecutor also said that in the house of Carmela Paucará, secretary of Keiko Fujimori documents concerning denunciations of President Martín Vizcarra were discovered.
After discussing the danger of obstruction of justice, Pérez said that the offense of money laundering charged to the lawyer is punishable by heavy penalties. This is in addition to the constant movements he regularly makes abroad, which points to a risk of flight
-Sin. Evidence –
Julio Espinoza, Silva Checa's lawyer, asked if his client had been included in a preparatory investigation and he was placed "expressly" in custody. He said that unlike other people who were the subject of an investigation, Silva Checa had not had the opportunity to defend himself during the preliminary investigation.
On another occasion, Espinoza had criticized the fact that the prosecution had not specified how the money laundering crime had been charged. Silva Checa.
He also denied that the documents found at Silva Checa's home were his. He recalled that Giulliana Loza, lawyer of Keiko Fujimori acknowledged that the documentation belonged to him. He added that the documents concerning Vizcarra found in Paucará's house were not from his accused.
"What information has the prosecutor given us to support the crime of conversion, what is the link between the procedural documents of President Vizcarra and the crime of money laundering?" He questioned.
He recalled that, according to the judgment of the Constitutional Court in the case of Ollanta Humala and Nadine Heredia, corroboration is necessary. declare protected witnesses. In this line, announced that it would raise "an objection of inappropriate action" against the investigation, so that the investigation on Silva Checa be canceled.
At the hearing, there was Keiko Fujimori who denied that Silva The Czech has no connection with the PF. "He's not my advisor, he's not a party activist, my lawyer has already had legal consultations, one point is everything," he told the press.
The hearing will continue today with the injunction against Pier Figari.
-Member and Botica-
At the hearing, Prosecutor Perez denounced the fact that, despite the threats made against him in the chat of Telegram La Botica, members of the Congress of Fuerza Popular had until now no authority from the public prosecutor. spoke for his defense.
In a conversation under discussion on October 17, 2018, Congressman Leyla Chihuán wrote: "Can we get the immigration file, with that we kill him, who can?"
"Account Given this threat, "with that we are killing him", an authority of the prosecutor's office asked, opened an investigation? […] No, sir, "he said.
He indicated that this inaction is explained by the fact – and he evoked the statements of the protected witnesses of his investigation – "the institutions are in the process of taking them back, but they are unfortunately captured", with reference
At another time, he asked Humberto Abanto, Jaime Yoshiyama's lawyer, for indicting the council he had given to Congress during Luis Galarreta's presidency.
Pérez He said that he expects the anti-corruption coordinator, Lourdes Téllez, to ask Congress to report on the hiring of Abanto, by Luis Mejía Lecca, an officer of Parliament and adviser of the Popular Force investigated by the prosecutor.
He asked Pérez to report on the work done by his wife in the purchases in Peru.
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