In Peru, the deputy prosecutor Paulina Roque presented the statements of the former director of Odebrecht in the country Jorge Barata and the former legislator Rolando Reátegui, in which they detailed the route that the contribution of the Brazilian construction company to the electoral campaign of the former candidate Keiko Fujimori allegedly followed. in 2011.
The Public Ministry reported this Friday that Roque exposed before the Judiciary the elements of conviction that they impute to Fujimori and others, for the alleged crime of money laundering, due to the alleged illicit handling of funds of the Fuerza Popular (FP) party in the 2011 presidential election campaign.
Prosecutor Roque presented the statement of former Odebrecht executive in Peru Jorge Barata, who stated that the contribution made to the FP campaign was through former ministers and supporters Jaime Yoshiyama Tanaka and Augusto Bedoya Cámere, identified as members of a criminal network led by Fujimori.
Roque specified that former legislator Rolando Reátegui declared that he was summoned by the top leadership of FP to capture false contributors, so that they can enter the party’s accounts the millionaire contributions of various companies.
In this sense, the prosecutor added that the businessman Giancarlo Bertini Vivanco, close to Yoshiyama’s son, entrusted Daniel Mellado Correa with the entry of illicit assets into the accounts of the aforementioned party.
Bertini Vivanco returned to Lima ten days ago, after having escaped from Justice in 2018, and entered a prison in the capital to serve the 36 months of preventive detention issued against him while the process is carried out.
In a previous hearing, prosecutor Roque presented the translations from the Brazilian authorities of a note on the cell phone of Marcelo Odebrecht, owner of the construction company involved in the Lava Jato scandal with ramifications in several Latin American countries.
Roque attributes Keiko Fujimori for having ordered members of the criminal organization to look for false contributors to give the appearance of legality and enter the irregular assets through the so-called “smurf” or small contributions.
The Prosecutor’s Office also maintains that the daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori, sentenced to 25 years in prison for human rights abuses, instrumentalized his party, through his congressional caucus, to favor business groups with the issuance of laws that benefit gaming houses, casinos and slot machines, the activities of some of its groups of contributors. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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