The Judicial Branch has sentenced former Callao Region Governor Felix Moreno to 5 years in prison for the crime of embezzlement.
The Third Single-Person Criminal Court of Ventanilla determined that Moreno and Miguel Angel Asencios —the former head of Callao Patrimonial Management Office— embezzled more than S/17 million (US$4.85 million), which should have been allocated to the Pachacutec City Special Project.
Asencios was sentenced to 4 years and 8 months of effective imprisonment.
Likewise, the court ordered that Moreno and Asencios jointly pay S/800,000 (about US$228,441) in civil damages.
The prosecutor presented financial-accounting documents and a report of the Institutional Control Body of the Regional Government of Callao, which allowed the judge to determine that both former officials had used the money for other purposes than those originally intended.
The amount had emerged from the sale of said project's lands, and this wrongdoing caused damage to the State of S/8.92 million (about US$2.54 million).
The resolution against Moreno was announced in advance of reading the judicial decision at Ancon 1 Prison, where the former governor serves two other sentences.
About Moreno
Moreno had been a fugitive since January that year, when the Judiciary sentenced him to five years of effective imprisonment.
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