Peru: Lava Jato Case Prosecutor raids Confiep headquarters

10:20 | Lima, Nov. 29.

Lava Jato Case Special Prosecution Group member Jose Domingo Perez currently leads a raid at the National Confederation of Private Business Institutions (Confiep) headquarters in Lima's upper-class San Isidro district.

The measure was authorized by Judge Victor Zuñiga from the Fourth National Preparatory Investigation Court belonging to the Superior Court of Justice Specialized in Organized Crime and Corruption by Officials.

The raid aims to find documents such as invoices, donation certificates, and any others related to the receipt or delivery of money that Confiep had made for the presidential campaigns of 2011 and 2016.

Also, the team members search for receipts linked to expenses and purchases made by the business guild within that framework.

According to the warrant, the purpose is to find any objects necessary for the investigation on the aforementioned political campaigns.

The search will last up to 48 hours.

On Thursday, National Confederation of Private Business Institutions (Confiep) Chairwoman Maria Isabel Leon urged entrepreneurs —who financed electoral campaigns— to step aside for the good of the country and their employees.

"Just as I have heard of this reputational crisis (...) involving companies that financed political campaigns in inappropriate ways, I tell them —in all sincerity— that (...) I have 3,650,000 reasons to ask entrepreneurs —the ones who have done things irregularly— to step aside, for their country, their employees, and ethical reasons. Let's set the example, let's do things right," she stated.

Her remarks were made at the Annual Conference of Executives (CADE-Executives 2019).

Keiko Fujimori

The Constitutional Court (TC) —by majority— on Monday decided to declare well-founded the habeas corpus submitted by Keiko Fujimori's relatives to annul the preventive detention imposed on her.

As is known, Fujimori was ordered to serve preventive detention over alleged money laundering charges linked to the Brazilian company Odebrecht.

Thus, she was accused of leading a criminal organization within the Fuerza Popular political party.

Back then, the Judicial Branch declared well-founded the request made by the Prosecutor's Office to imprison Fujimori because of the danger of obstruction of justice that implied keeping her free.

On October 31, 2018, Judge Richard Concepcion Carhuancho ordered her preventive detention for 36 months. However, last September, the Judicial Branch ruled in favor of reducing the preventive detention to 18 months.

She is the daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori, who ruled the Inca country between 1990 and 2000. He is currently in jail for crimes of corruption and against human rights committed during his time in office.

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Published: 11/29/2019

Peru: Lava Jato Case Prosecutor raids Confiep headquarters

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