Peru’s Third National Collegiate Criminal Court on Monday ordered the annulment of all proceedings relating to the crime of obstruction of justice in the money laundering trial against Peruvian opposition leader Keiko Fujimori and 40 other people involved.
The Judiciary confirmed on its account on the social network X (formerly Twitter) that the collegiate court decided to “void the order that summons the oral trial and procedural acts” of this trial, to date, in favor of Fujimori and other people for the crime of obstruction of justice.
At a hearing held on Monday, the court was to issue a decision on the request of the accused Arsenio Oré, one of the lawyers involved in the case against Fujimori, to exclude him from the crime of obstruction of justice based on a previous ruling by the Constitutional Court. However, the court ordered that the people prosecuted – such as the former presidential candidate herself and the former members of her electoral campaigns and party advisors Jaime Yoshiyama, José Chlimper, Adriana Tarazona, Pier Figari and Ana Hertz – continue to be tried for money laundering and other crimes.
In addition, the court did not accept the request of some of the beneficiaries who also asked for the annulment of the crime of criminal organization linked to obstruction of justice, and their defense attorneys filed a motion to appeal this decision, according to the website of the newspaper El Comercio.
In a previous hearing, Fujimori denied the charges brought against him by the Prosecutor’s Office for money laundering, based on the millions of illegal contributions allegedly received in his electoral campaigns in 2011 and 2016.
Regarding the version of Odebrecht representatives, that they had illegally contributed 1.2 million dollars to her campaign in 2011, Fujimori recalled – last July – that the owner of the Brazilian firm, Marcelo Odebrecht, said he did not know her and that the former director in Peru, Jorge Barata, commented that she had “never” approached him.
For his part, Peruvian prosecutor José Domingo Pérez stated at the beginning of the trial that Fujimori founded the Fuerza Popular party not only with the aim of profiting, but also to achieve impunity for its members, who were implicated in a criminal organization, when presenting the accusation in the oral trial against her and 45 other people and entities.
At the hearing, Pérez supported the accusations made against Fujimori, for which he is asking for 30 years in prison, and also accused the leadership of his party, which he called a “criminal organization,” and dozens of collaborators and alleged contributors to his campaigns to run for the Presidency of Peru in 2011 and 2016.
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