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The judicial corruption scandal in Peru intensified today with new revelations that cost the Minister of Justice the day President Martín Vizcarra created a commission to reform the judicial system, which he described as being in the Minister Salvador Heresi head of Justice and Human Rights Portfolio, was the first political victim of this case, revealing a so-called Traffic of influence and prevarication installed at the highest
The click that forced Heresi to resign was a new installment of the series of telephone recordings that are gradually being released by IDL-Reporteros and the l & # 39; Panorama TV show, chapters that reveal a more complex skein each time. corrupt contacts and practices.
In this last episode, Heresi intends to hear in April a meeting with César Hinostroza, the supreme leader of uez, already famous at the national level in this scandal for having offered in another telephone conversation the Acquittal of a rapist of an 11-year-old girl
In this dialogue, Heresi Hinostroza regret not being able to finalize two meetings that had previously coordinated and attempted to set a new date for the magistrate to advise the former minister on an ongoing legislative proposal in Congress.
The reason for seeking the opinion of Hinostroza is for a singular sentence dictated by him, although the dialogue does not specify which one.
Hinostroza, who served until Thursday as president of the Transitional Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, author of controversial sentences, changed the concept of active money laundering.
This case law established jurisprudence and allowed another judge [1]. 9659003] file an investigation against the employer Joaquín Ramírez, ex-secretary general of the party fujimorista Fuerza Popular, for alleged money laundering for election campaigns of the candidate in the presidency of this formation, [19659003] Keiko Fujimori .
Although Heresi did not intend to resign early, arguing that there was nothing illegal in the conversation, he ended up giving up the request of President Vizcarra facilitate the continuity of the global reform of justice, which the President intends to do in record time.
A few hours before the minister's resignation, the president had formed the commission of experts to develop the reform project. of the Peruvian Justice, whose members met early in the morning
The group is chaired by diplomat and former minister Allan Wagner, accompanied by the former magistrate of the Constitutional Court Delia Revoredo, the judge and former president of the National Council of Elections Hugo Sivina, constitutional lawyers Samuel Abad and Ana Teresa Revilla and the former defenders of the city Eduardo Vega and Walter Albán
Vizcarra said that this scandal in the judicial system "reveals the degree of decomposition of the justice administration system "in Peru and warned that" no one can stay idle in this situation. "
The President waits for the commission Within a maximum of twelve days, he will present a report containing the first recommendations that he will present to the Congress in his speech of July 28, national day of Peru in which he celebrates the anniversary of independence.
In parallel, the Judiciary (OCMA) of Peru today announced the suspension of five judges of the Superior Court of Justice of Callao, among them its president, Walter Ríos, who had submitted his resignation a few hours previously
Contra Rios, who is heard in telephone conversations request a bribe of at least 10 thousand dollars to promote a judge, the anticorruption lawyer requested his pre-trial detention
The other four suspended judges are Mónica Hoyos, Raúl Salcedo, Walter Linares and Miguel Ángel Miranda.
The OCMA specified that it was not empowered to take action against the supreme judge Hinostroza, who can only suspend or dismiss the Congress or the National Council of Magistracy (CNM ), where three members are involved in the scandal.
In this sense, the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations of Congress today approved a report rejecting Hinostroza and two members of the CNM.
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