After a patient intelligence work, the National Police of Peru (PNP) captured the
The retired Commanding General of the Army (2006-2008) was taken into custody by law enforcement agents in Puente Piedra district at 7:55 P.M. (local time), when he was departing a local convenience store after trying to make a phone call from a booth,
Interior Minister Carlos Moran confirmed.
The high-ranking official congratulated the work done by PNP members and assured that —just as Donayre was captured— other fugitives from justice will also be arrested.
Moran reported that Donayre did not resist the arrest and that the agents tracking him managed to learn he had been staying in the northern area of the country.
Case
Last April, the Judicial Branch ratified the five-and-a-half-year effective imprisonment sentence against Donayre for the illegal appropriation of fuel inside the Army, while serving as head of a southern military unit in 2006.
Likewise, he was accused of having created delivery and receipt certificates in order to hide the illegal appropriation of fuel, in addition to the generation of an "incineration commission."
According to the Prosecutor's Office, Donayre —who was Commanding General of the Army at that time— and other 40 people involved in the matter managed, requested, and received —between January and November 2006— oil and 84-octane gasoline for extraordinary fuel orders with the purpose of economically benefitting from them in an illegal way.
It went on to add the fuel had been diverted to private gas stations.
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