A former DEA collaborator provides new evidence

Jesús Vásquez, the DEA pilot and former collaborator, sent new information to the Prosecutor's Office for money laundering on alleged money-laundering activities of Joaquín Ramírez, a former member of the Popular Force and his uncle. Alas Peruanas University, Fidel Ramirez, Peru and the United States.

Vásquez had to wait two years to testify before the Peruvian procuratorate. He made it last Thursday at the Peruvian Consulate in Miami, in a stagecoach that lasted from 9 am to 10 pm. In May 2016, in front of the Fourth Estate journalists, the pilot revealed that, on behalf of the US Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA, he had recorded a series of conversations with Joaquín Ramírez

. Ramírez told him that he had received $ 15 million from the presidential election candidate of the time, Keiko Fujimori, to wash them in a plumbing company. The money had been left behind by contributions to the 2011 election campaign.

Given the political and public scandal that provoked this statement, the Attorney General's office opened a preliminary investigation, but only now they are collecting the statement of the witness. The specialized prosecutors Wilson Salazar Reque and Jorge García Juárez, as well as the prosecutor Corina Trujillo Peralta went to Miami

In the stagecoach were also the lawyers of the investigated, Giuliana Loza by Keiko Fujimori, José Luis Castillo by Joaquín Ramírez and Nicolás Meza by Fidel Ramírez. Jesús Vásquez appeared only at the rendezvous. He told prosecutors that he did not need a lawyer

. Under the watchful eye of prosecutors and lawyers, the pilot stated that he had been recruited by the DEA in 2005 for the investigation on Fernando Zevallos. Then, in 2007, he intervened in the investigation on the alleged narco Miguel Arévalo's Eteco & # 39;.

It was at this time that, as he says, he came into contact with Fidel and Joaquín Ramírez. Vásquez. He said that he went to Lima this year, accompanied by two DEA agents, to inquire about the purchase of an aircraft that Fidel Ramirez did. at Aerocondor. Fidel had paid US $ 700,000 for the plane that was in the naval base of the Marina almost in the state of scrap

A year earlier, Vásquez had offered Ramírez an aircraft in operation for US $ 300,000. In addition, on the surtax paid in Lima, the Ramírez group invested 2 million US dollars to make the plane operational, which caused distrust of the DEA. It was thought that the plane would be used to carry drugs.

Back in Miami, there are meetings with Joaquín Ramírez that the DEA asks him to register. In one of these conversations, Joaquín talked about the money Keiko Fujimori had given him. Vásquez said that he had seen her talk with the former presidential candidate and also with Alberto Fujimori.

In another conversation, Joaquín told him that he owned a building in Weston, north of Miami, where his department was valued in US dollars. $ 6 million.

Vásquez said that he also contacted Edgardo Sánchez, an accountant who manages the Ramírez Group's investments in the United States, for another 20 million dollars, he said.

In the end, the pilot informed that the audios were in the hands of the DEA, an entity to which – said the Office of the Prosecutor – may request a copy. Vasquez has been deepened throughout its history. Then, prosecutors and lawyers asked him a series of questions to clarify his entire story. ❧

Audios may be asked to the DEA

• "The witness only says what he heard, he does not know if there was a whitening of 39, assets, or that Joaquín Ramírez received the $ 15 million.In short, he knows nothing at all, "said one of the defense lawyers present on stage
• Jesús Vásquez insisted before prosecutors Wilson Salazar and Jorge García to ask the DEA for a copy of the audio and general information of the investigation.The prosecutors said that on June 28, they had submitted a request for cooperation In 1965, in another passage of the long interrogation, Vásquez told the prosecutor's office that between two companies, the two houses that Joaquín Ramírez bought in Lima and that put in the disposition of Fuerza Popular, the departments acquired in Miami, will be t more than 15 million, which would confirm what the former MP said.

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