The Permanent Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court on Tuesday sentenced former Congressman
to four years and six months of suspended prison term over the Mamani Videos case.
Moreover, the collegiate body set a series of rules of conduct that the convicted individuals must obey, including the execution of social work under the coordination of the
National Penitentiary Institute (INPE).
Likewise, it sentenced ex-adviser Alexei Toledo Vallejos to four years of suspended prison term, and established the payment of S/500,000 (about US$134,770) in civil damages, which shall be made in a collaborative manner by all those sentenced.
The chamber ordered that the sentence be suspended and not effective based on the principle of benign retroactivity, since a device —by which effective prison sentences are applied to sentences of five years and upwards, and no longer to four-year ones— was recently approved.
"In this case, the court applied article 57, paragraph 1, of Legislative Decree No. 1585, issued in November 2023, which indicates that the execution of the sentence is suspended when it is no longer than five years, as is the present case," the Judiciary explained
Arguments
During the reading of the sentence, Judge Manuel Lujan Tupez remarked that the recordings made by parliamentarian Moises Mamani, which served to prove influence peddling, constituted constitutional and legal evidence.
Likewise, he ruled out that said recordings have been manipulated.
Furthermore, the magistrate noted that the offering of public works contracts by a congressman constitutes an illegal act and cannot be a socially accepted way of doing politics.